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David Mamet Inspirational Quotes (146)

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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
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As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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