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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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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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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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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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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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
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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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You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
