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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Chicago
Illinois
David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
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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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The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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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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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
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Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.
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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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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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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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Based on a true story is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of no loan request refused. For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
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Every fear hides a wish.
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