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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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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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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
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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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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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