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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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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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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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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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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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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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