David Mamet Quotes
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
Quotes to Explore
-
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
-
Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
-
I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
-
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
-
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
-
If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
-
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
-
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
-
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
-
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
-
Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
-
A lot happens in 20 years.
-
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
-
On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
-
I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
-
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
-
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
-
The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
-
I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
-
Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know theyre different countries.
-
Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
-
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
