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David Mamet

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dramatist, author, playwright, screenwriter

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

David Mamet

“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.”

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“I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.”

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“The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.”

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“There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.”

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“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.”

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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.”

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“American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.”

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“The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.”

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“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”

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“I'm not an ascetic.”

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