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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
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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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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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