David Mamet Quotes
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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I really have the American dream licked.
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In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
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I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
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I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
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When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like 'Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?!' 'Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?'
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Ken, the Tot of Destiny, had turned into the Marquis de Sade, and I in response had become a virago.
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I want to prove that the system is not working. . . . . You can’t simply say that the system is not working. You have to work through it
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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
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Britney Spears comes on and she's singing about Pepsi, except you don't know what she's saying, because she can't fucking sing, so what you have is this: titty titty titty titty titty titty titty, ass ass ass, titty titty titty titty, ass, ass, BIG ASS, titty titty titty titty titty titty ass ass titty ass.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.
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No one law or set of laws will end horrific acts of violence, but Congress has an obligation to take action and make sure that terrorists and bad guys don't have easy access to guns in our country.
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
