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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I think violence can never be justified.
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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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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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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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You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I'm into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I'd recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre.
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I've goten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.
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It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.
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There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
