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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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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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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
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The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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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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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.
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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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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
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They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
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I don't really have a social life.
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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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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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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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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
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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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