David Mamet
Quotations
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“Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.” -David Mamet
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“It’s upsetting to be a man in our society.” -David Mamet
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“Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.” -David Mamet
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“I’m not the guy to ask about politics. I’m a gag writer.” -David Mamet
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“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.” -David Mamet
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“Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it’s still evolving in different ways.” -David Mamet
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“There’s nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won’t ring from room service your mother won’t be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you’re dead.” -David Mamet
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“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.” -David Mamet
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“If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.” -David Mamet
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“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.” -David Mamet
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“One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’”…
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“You know, young actors say all the time, ‘Should I use my own life experience?’ And my response is, ‘What choice do you have?’” -David Mamet
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“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.” -David Mamet
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“I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.” -David Mamet
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“In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.” -David Mamet
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. – David Mamet
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