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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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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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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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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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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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
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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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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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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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Like Lincoln said: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.
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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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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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