David Mamet Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
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We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
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There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
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You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.
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I remember, working on 'Lost,' I learned very quickly the way that I had to approach the material or even ask the director questions. It was always prefaced with, 'Would it be wrong for me to assume?' Because I didn't know where my character on 'Lost' was going.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
