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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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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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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.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
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What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.
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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
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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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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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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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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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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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