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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.
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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
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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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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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People only speak to get something.
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Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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