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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
David Mamet
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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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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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People only speak to get something.
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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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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