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 do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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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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To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
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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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I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of men and women and there is a meeting only for women.
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There are ecosystems like coral reefs at risk through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.
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I'm very relieved it didn't go into the mouth of the Mississippi, ... That would have been catastrophic.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
