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One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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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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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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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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I won't ever do e-mail.
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