David Mamet Quotes

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

David Mamet

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• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
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  • High

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

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• I am not honest.

  

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

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  • Fun
  • Song
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• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

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• I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

  

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• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

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  • Kids
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  • Popular

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

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  • Music
  • Influence
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• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
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• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

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  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

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  • Trying
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  • Destroy

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

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  • Home
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• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

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  • Die
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• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

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• I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

  

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• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

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• I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.

  

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  

  David Mamet
  • American
  • Football
  • Soccer