David Mamet Quotes
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
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In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
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Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.
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With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
