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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

~David Mamet

Topics: Afraid Being Being Lazy Cowardly Early Get Go Lazy Love Morning Only Things Two Up Work Write I Love

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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

~David Mamet

Topics: Basically Because Chekhov Danish Good Guys Know Like Long Many May Norwegian Others People Play Plays Poetry Polemic Pretty Pretty Good Russian See Speak Spoke Translation Understand Whatever Without Write You

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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.

~David Mamet

Topics: Any Beliefs Direction Experience Free Freedom Future Go Include Incredibly Mode Narrative Novel Off Own Past Puts Self Total Writing You

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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

Topics: Ask Boring Dad Dead Get Good Good Time Had Hamlet Happens He Here Him His Home Involved Must No Reason Nothing Order Play Reason Returned School Situation Something Time Unbalanced Where You

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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.

~David Mamet

Topics: Another Back Beliefs Could Describe Exercise Liberal Logically Look Myself Political Political Beliefs Rewarding Some Sort Superiority Wonder

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 30th, 1947

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