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" I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer. "
David Mamet
Out
Work
Well
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" I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. "
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Randy
Bach
Newman
" 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
" I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. "
David Mamet
Old
Since
Public
" 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. "
David Mamet
Potential
Yes
Dangerous
" 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. "
David Mamet
Goal
Football
American
" It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. "
David Mamet
Israel
Who
American
" The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv. "
David Mamet
Give
Liberals
Palestinians
" 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. "
David Mamet
Good
Time
Situation
" It's upsetting to be a man in our society. "
David Mamet
Our
Upsetting
Society
" I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. "
David Mamet
Fascinated
Been
Always
" Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. "
David Mamet
Old
Always
Age
" Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember. "
David Mamet
Always
Remember
Tell
" Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. "
David Mamet
Power
View
Way
" 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
" 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. "
David Mamet
People
Politics
Government
" The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. "
David Mamet
Way
Always
Drama
" I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. "
David Mamet
Sound
Love
Too
" I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. "
David Mamet
Afraid
Only
Things
" War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. "
David Mamet
Peace
Tragedy
War
" 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. "
David Mamet
People
Government
Think
" When I started out I was a failed actor. "
David Mamet
Failed
Out
Started
" The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness. "
David Mamet
Man
Admire
Most
" 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. "
David Mamet
You
Crime
Rich
" I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail. "
David Mamet
E-Mail
Hate
Ever
" There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough. "
David Mamet
Talent
Enough
You
" I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. "
David Mamet
Always
More
Fact
" I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. "
David Mamet
Political
American
Get
" 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. "
David Mamet
Say
Way
Habit
" The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. "
David Mamet
Man
Rich
Best
" 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. "
David Mamet
Heaven
Fly
Science