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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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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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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
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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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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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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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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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