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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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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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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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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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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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