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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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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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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
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I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.
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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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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
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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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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
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The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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People only speak to get something.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
David Mamet
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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