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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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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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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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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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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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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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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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Like Lincoln said: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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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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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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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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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed unwittingly, the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?
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