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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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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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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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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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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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Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
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People only speak to get something.
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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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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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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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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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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
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The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
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Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
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A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.
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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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