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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. "
David Mamet
You
Say
Neighborhood
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" Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom. "
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Experience
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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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" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "
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Art
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" Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. "
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Old
Always
Age
" What I value most in my friends is loyalty. "
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Loyalty
Friends
Value
" I love the British. "
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Love
I Love
British
" Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views. "
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People
Government
Think
" A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. "
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Dialogue
Film
Without
" The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. "
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Philosophy
Essence
" I won't ever do e-mail. "
David Mamet
Ever
E-Mail
" I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. "
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Afraid
Only
Things
" We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. "
David Mamet
Hollywood
Best
Aesthetic
" Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. "
David Mamet
Arts
Good
Invention
" You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. "
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People
Politics
Government
" I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. "
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Fascinated
Been
Always
" I don't really have a social life. "
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Social
Really
Life
" 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.' "
David Mamet
Know
Business
Friend
" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "
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Gag
About
Ask
" People only speak to get something. "
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People
Something
Only
" 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. "
David Mamet
Artist
Important
Society
" Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. "
David Mamet
Original
Drama
Carnival
" The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all. "
David Mamet
Them
Within
Peace
" 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. "
David Mamet
Listen
Admire
Down
" Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. "
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Spirit
Matters
Nothing
" I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. "
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Back
Exercise
Look
" 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. "
David Mamet
Head
Audience
Play
" The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. "
David Mamet
Government
People
Law
" I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. "
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Look
Myself
Political
" 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. "
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Potential
Yes
Dangerous
" Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime. "
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Clock
Great
Crime