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I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
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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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The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
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They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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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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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.
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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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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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