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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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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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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Medicaid and Medicare both need to be devolved to the states.
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I'm a New York kid, so when I saw that plane that hit the first building, I suspected it was terrorism - blue sky day.
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
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There is something fucking unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them..
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.
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Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.
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Immediately we were all like - this sounds like Won’t get fooled again ! And that was the track done really.
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When I originally debuted in 2011, I was on 'SmackDown.' At the time, they were separate from 'RAW,' so I feel at home on 'SmackDown.'
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Fuck the machine? FUCK THE MACHINE! What is this, courtesy class? You're fucked, Rick.
