David Mamet Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
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From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!
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Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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What NDS did is allow us to move into video capability with large service providers or cable providers - and the ability to do this out of the cloud. And that allows you to do it faster.
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But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
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We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.
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Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
