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Damon Galgut Quotes

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Damon Galgut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 12, 1963

Topics

Change Past Present Interesting Deal

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

Jim Evans

Work Improvement Problems Face Two

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

Jim Crace

Age World Mirrors Real Trustworthy

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Jeremy Rifkin

History People Over Years Last Make

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Simon Schama

New York Green Stylish New More Big

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Tom Jenkinson

Music Ideas More Older More And More

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

Martin Van Buren

Trust Men People Footsteps Sacred

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Deborah Bull

Life Good Experience Dance Think

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.

Bobby Sands

I Am War People Political Alien

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

Mother I Am Mom Am

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

Ariana Grande

Love Hands Being Just Studio I Love

I don't mind sitting at home for six months if there's no film that I want to do.

Alia Bhatt

Home Mind Want Sitting Film Six

I think anytime you work on something, even if you feel really good about it, you're never really sure. Once it's in the public space, it's out of my hands.

Phoebe Robinson

Work Good Space Think Hands You