David Mamet Quotes

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

David Mamet

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
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  • Daughter

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
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• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
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• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Time
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• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Step

• A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
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  • May

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
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• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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  • Government
  • Foundation

• I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Give

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
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  • Girl
  • Acting

• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Model
  • Beauty
  • Conform

• India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Model
  • Shadow
  • Development

• When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • House
  • Rock
  • Car

• Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Country

• Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

  

  Seth Godin
  • Light
  • Idea
  • Able

• Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Vanity

• I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size.

  

  Cliff Chiang

• My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

  

  David Mamet
  • Fear