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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
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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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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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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 pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
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A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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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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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed unwittingly, the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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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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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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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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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.
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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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The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
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