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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I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always worked for it.
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What else is the help of medicine than love?
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The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
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Fuck the machine? FUCK THE MACHINE! What is this, courtesy class? You're fucked, Rick.
