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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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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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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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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing that politicians go in poor and go out rich that the Government screws up everything it touches and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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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.
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It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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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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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 audience requires not information but drama.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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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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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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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
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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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