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The audience requires not information but drama.

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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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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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