Damon Galgut Quotes

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Great artists have no fatherland.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.

We will be all about the local, not the global.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.

'Hamlet' is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that we all share the same problems regardless of religion, nation and culture.

I've just been very interested in the living side of Washington, rather than the federal side, since I was a kid.