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David Mamet

Born: November 30, 1947

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dramatist, author, playwright, screenwriter

Biography: David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.

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David Mamet

“Well, to the law, you're an accessory. Before the fact.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“Get the chalk! Get the fucking chalk! Put me on the board! Put me on the Cadillac board! Williamson! Pick up the fucking chalk! Hey, Rick I closed em! I closed the cocksucker!”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“I point back in the living room, back to the sideboard. I didn't fucking know there was a sideboard there!”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“You are a shithead, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet you oughta keep your mouth shut.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“April to September it's me, it's no fucking Moss! Due respect... he's an order taker. Talks... oh, talks a good game. But look at the board, and it's me John. It's me.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“A man should BE his job. You are FUCKED at yours.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“Where have you been, Shelly? Bruce and Harriet Nyborg. Do you want to see the memos...? They're nuts... they used to call in every week Did you see how they were living? The people are insane. They just like talking to salesmen.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“the goal of the Left is a Government-run Country and that of the Right the freedom of the individual from Government. Page 236.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“The Good Causes of the Left may generally be compared to NASCAR; they offer the diversion of watching things go excitingly around in a circle, getting nowhere. Page 11.”

- David Mamet

Source/Notes: Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)

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David Mamet

“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.”

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David Mamet

“We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.”

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“The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.”

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“A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.”

- David Mamet

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