David Mamet Quotes
I point back in the living room, back to the sideboard. I didn't fucking know there was a sideboard there!
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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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.
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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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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.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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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.
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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.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
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Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.
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I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.
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I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay - but none of them are free.
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If golfers know they look good, they will play better. I think that is valid for men and women.
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Kafka taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. ... He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.
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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
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I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.
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I point back in the living room, back to the sideboard. I didn't fucking know there was a sideboard there!
