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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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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed unwittingly, the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?
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They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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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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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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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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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
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