David Mamet Quotes
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.
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I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
