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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: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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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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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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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 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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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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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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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
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