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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
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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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I won't ever do e-mail.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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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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