Damon Galgut Quotes
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
