David Mamet Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
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I steal props from 'SNL' a great deal. Almost every sketch I'm in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
