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The audience requires not information but drama.
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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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
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You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
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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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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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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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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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Like Lincoln said: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.
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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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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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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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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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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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