David Mamet Quotes
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.
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Many states favor joint custody.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
