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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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Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
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We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.
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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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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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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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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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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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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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I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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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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What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
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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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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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