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I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

~David Mamet

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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

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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

Topics: Arms Bell Diplomacy Failure Farewell Great Greatest Peace Some Stories Those Tragedies Tragedy War Whom

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

~David Mamet

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

~David Mamet

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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.

~David Mamet

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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

~David Mamet

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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

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

~David Mamet

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

~David Mamet

Topics: Always Easiest Easiest Thing Remember Tell Thing Truth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 30th, 1947

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