David Mamet Quotes
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
Quotes to Explore
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I just wanna be a good artist.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
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Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
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One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
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The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
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I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
