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People only speak to get something.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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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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Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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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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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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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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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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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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As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
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Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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