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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

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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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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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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As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
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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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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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