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David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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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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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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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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Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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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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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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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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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
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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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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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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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The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
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