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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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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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We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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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 pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing that politicians go in poor and go out rich that the Government screws up everything it touches and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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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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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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