David Mamet Quotes
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
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When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.
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I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
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If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?
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A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.
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WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.
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We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
