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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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
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'Young men,' said Cæsar, 'hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
