David Mamet Quotes

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Know
  • Just
  • Wedding

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Want
  • Trump

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Home
  • Light

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Positive

• Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Political

• I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

  

  Busy Philipps

• We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

  

  David Baldacci
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

  

  David Mamet
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