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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
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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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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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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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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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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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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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Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.
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