David Mamet Quotes
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
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Medicaid and Medicare both need to be devolved to the states.
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If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.
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People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.
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Yeah. And as Linus once said: most numerical problems today in pure CPU cycles are actually 3D games. … It's not 'incorrect' to say that you want the result faster, even if that result doesn't match your theoretical models.
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It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.
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Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.
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Fuck the machine? FUCK THE MACHINE! What is this, courtesy class? You're fucked, Rick.
