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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Chicago
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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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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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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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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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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People only speak to get something.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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I don't really have a social life.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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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 honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing that politicians go in poor and go out rich that the Government screws up everything it touches and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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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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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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