David Mamet Quotes
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm not graceful.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
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I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.
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The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of 'optimism training' is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.
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It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
