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 never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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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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Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
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Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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You've got to listen to your guests.
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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
