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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: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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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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