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It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

~David Mamet

Topics: Good Hard Plot Very Write

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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

~David Mamet

Topics: American Generation Hard Israel Jew My Generation Who

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Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

~David Mamet

Topics: Categories Conscious Constant Culture Exists Habit Human Impossible Interaction Interactions Make Reference Which Would

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There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

~David Mamet

Topics: Create Dialogue Just Me Something Wants

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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

Topics: About Always Does Down Drama Ideas Main Protagonist Question Setting Taught Theme Want Wants Way

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People only speak to get something.

~David Mamet

Topics: Get Only People Something Speak

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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

~David Mamet

Topics: Always Been Fascinated

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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

Topics: About Admire Asked Degree Down English Got Here How Hundred Hundred Years Last List Listen Make Many Over Sat See Somebody Them Thing Writers Years You

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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

~David Mamet

Topics: After Calling Dead Everybody More Morning Mother Nothing Phone Play Ring Room Rung Service Silent Telephone Than World You Your

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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

~David Mamet

Topics: American Because Entitled Get Opinions Political Vote

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 30th, 1947

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