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" Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. "

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. "

" I won't ever do e-mail. "

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" It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. "

" 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. "

" Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order. "

" I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. "

" I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail. "

" The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. "

" It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. "

" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. "

" We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. "

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" 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. "

" I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. "

" I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television. "

" Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember. "

" A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. "

" Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime. "

" It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. "

" President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.' "

" When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. "

" Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. "

" There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue. "

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" Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. "

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