Damon Galgut Quotes

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

Damon Galgut

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FutureFreedomPastMindFinding

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

John Berger

PowerPeoplePressureCircumstances

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

Jenna Fischer

ActorHardCauseReally

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Andrea Barrett

GoodFriendRelationshipGreatKnow

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

John Ortberg

CommunityGhettoWillOutPreachUs

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

John Ruskin

LightWalkDarknessYouComeWhile

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mira Nair

MirrorPoliticsPeopleHelpLook

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

SaidWhateverWellMineAnother

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

LivePeopleRichYouBeing Rich

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

Jon Johansen

MeNowConfusionSeemsHappened

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

Doug Ducey

BornProductClassHereUsWorking

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

Brent Sexton

CharacterMeBetterPlayOutside

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Boris Spassky

WorkTheatreCinemaChessLikeSome

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