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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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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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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
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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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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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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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People only speak to get something.
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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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Based on a true story is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of no loan request refused. For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
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A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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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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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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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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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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