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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

“A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.”

- David Mamet

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David Mamet

“I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.”

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David Mamet

“The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.”

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“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”

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“Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.”

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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.”

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“The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.”

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“In Chicago, we love our crooks!”

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“I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.”

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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 get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.”

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