Damon Galgut Quotes
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
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It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
