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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

~David Mamet

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The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

~David Mamet

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In Chicago, we love our crooks!

~David Mamet

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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

~David Mamet

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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

~David Mamet

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I'm not an ascetic.

~David Mamet

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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

~David Mamet

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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

~David Mamet

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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

~David Mamet

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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

~David Mamet

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 30th, 1947

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