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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
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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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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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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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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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Every fear hides a wish.
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
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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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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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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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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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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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