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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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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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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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Based on a true story is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of no loan request refused. For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
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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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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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