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David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream 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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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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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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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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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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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
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If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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