David Mamet Quotes
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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I understand that it's a volatile environment. Certainly I have tough enough skin, so have at it. There's no way to properly answer that question so I won't try.
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Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
