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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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
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There is a good and a bad way to handle everything.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
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There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
