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When I started out I was a failed actor.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Chicago
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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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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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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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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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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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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The audience requires not information but drama.
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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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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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