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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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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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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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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
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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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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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People only speak to get something.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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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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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
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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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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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