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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.
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Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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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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I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
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