David Mamet Quotes

I point back in the living room, back to the sideboard. I didn't fucking know there was a sideboard there!

David Mamet

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• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Good
  • Money
  • Me

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Down
  • Owning
  • Leverage

• There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Air
  • First
  • Too Much

• It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Way

• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Play
  • Never
  • Broadway

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Create
  • Shoe

• I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Support

• I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Family

• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  

  Barry Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Black

• Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the bad and the worst and the bestHave gone to their eternal rest.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Death

• 'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • She
  • Teacher

• Dark City is such an underrated film.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • City
  • Dark

• Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.

  

  Clifton Fadiman

• You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Work

• Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Gift

• In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

  

  Margaret Wertheim
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Every film is a new adventure, and I always meet new cast and crew members that blow my mind.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Mind
  • Adventure
  • Blow

• It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Work
  • Important

• I point back in the living room, back to the sideboard. I didn't fucking know there was a sideboard there!

  

  David Mamet