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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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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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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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
