David Mamet Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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I challenge any American family to think about what they would do if they were invaded by a hostile force. If tanks pulled up outside their house, and there were armed men inside, would they send their kids out? A lot of Americans would fight that to the end.
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It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
