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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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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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I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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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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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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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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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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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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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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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
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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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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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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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