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When I started out I was a failed actor.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
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Chicago
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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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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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
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The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
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The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
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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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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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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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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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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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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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A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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