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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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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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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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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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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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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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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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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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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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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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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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
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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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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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