David Mamet Quotes
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.
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There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
