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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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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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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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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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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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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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People only speak to get something.
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