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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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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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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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