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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
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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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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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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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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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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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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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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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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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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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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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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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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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