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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.
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We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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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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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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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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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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People only speak to get something.
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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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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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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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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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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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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
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