David Mamet Quotes
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
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You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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We have much work ahead, to stand still.
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The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
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I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
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In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
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I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.
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Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.
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Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
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We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who they are.
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I'm not an ascetic.
