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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.

~David Mamet

Topics: Basis Civilisation Did Discover Discovery Drama End Goal Great He Hero Him Inevitable Kept Lesser Out Seen Set Something Specific Struggle Towards Which

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I love the British.

~David Mamet

Topics: British Love I Love

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I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

~David Mamet

Topics: Believe Changed Decades Liberal Many Mind Took View I Believe

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

~David Mamet

Topics: About Ask Gag Guy Politics Writer

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I won't ever do e-mail.

~David Mamet

Topics: Ever E-Mail

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

~David Mamet

Topics: Afraid Being Being Lazy Cowardly Lazy Only Things Two

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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

~David Mamet

Topics: Always Am Ask Course Hemingway Me People Really Reservation Silent Tell Them Writer You I Am

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I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

~David Mamet

Topics: After Back Coming Could Day Fact Fighting Fireman Fires Having In Fact Like Only Put See Still Think Used Would Writing

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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

~David Mamet

Topics: Acceptance Conservative Gay Get Greater Liberal Like Person Pretending Straight

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

~David Mamet

Topics: Been Old Public Since Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 30th, 1947

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