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David Mamet
David Mamet
American Dramatist
Born: Nov 30, 1947
Always Good Government People Think You
Related authors: Clare Boothe Luce George S. Kaufman Lillian Hellman Paddy Chayefsky Tennessee Williams Wilson Mizner Zora Neale Hurston
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. David Mamet
Age Youth Old Will Old Age Exuberance Beat Always Treachery
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember. David Mamet
Truth Remember Easiest Easiest Thing Tell Always Thing
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money. David Mamet
Needs You Money Crime Three Greedy Rich Luck Those Through Like Another Get Any Going Fulfilling Things
It's only words... unless they're true. David Mamet
Words Unless Only True
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. David Mamet
People Say Something Always Get May Want Mean Designed
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. David Mamet
Government Peace Political Evil Power Greed Submission Ways Recognized Must Temper Only Various Individual Between Parties Opposition Branches Political Parties Quite Literally Coercion Founders Necessary Necessary Evil Desires
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' David Mamet
Work Family Church Diversity Country Healthy State Indeed Security City One-Size-Fits-All Determined More Adventure Name Another Makes Person May Size Want Leisure Slavery Need
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. David Mamet
You Word Gun Tough Say Further Neighborhood Kind Kind Word Up Than Get Just Grew Used
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. David Mamet
Politics About Guy Writer Gag Ask
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. David Mamet
Cowardly Only Lazy Afraid Being Being Lazy Things Two
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
Myself Political Liberal Back Logically Some Superiority Could Look Sort Another Exercise Political Beliefs Wonder Rewarding Describe Beliefs
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. David Mamet
Films Drama Carnival Thrills Operation Offer Original Amusement
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble. David Mamet
College Lawyer Group Our Kid Immigrant Guy Bubble Know Democrat Democratic Hippie Up Very Labor Any Grew Republicans Then Dad Lived Hardworking Jew
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. David Mamet
Settlers East About Seems Through Football Putting Ball Opponent Line Goal Truly Scores Westward American Move Native Want Native Americans American Football Soccer Land Resemble
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. David Mamet
Matters Nothing Every Spirit Idea Human Nothing Matters Human Spirit
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. David Mamet
Government Best Man Honest Man Will Practice Politicians Rich Nothing Believe Too Elsewhere Everything Out Religious Something No-One Observe Venue Go Up Gets Just Expensive Confined Poor Might Honest
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. David Mamet
World Find Threaten Terrifying Which Us
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
Great Struggle Hero Seen Inevitable Drama Out Something Civilisation He Towards Him Discover Goal Discovery End Did Which Lesser Specific Kept Basis Set
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
Service Morning You World Phone Mother Nothing Everybody Telephone Rung Ring Silent More Dead Calling Than After Room Room Service Your Play
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. David Mamet
Government People Law Black Black And White Example White Monstrous Must Ability Somehow Determined Given Only Both Absurd For Example Knows Than Fewer Anyone Acquainted Preferences Certain Assessment
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. David Mamet
Good You Think Top Plot Structure Write Head Because Audience Off Your Hard Play
I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. David Mamet
Bach Randy Like Newman
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. David Mamet
Drama Our Respond Which Extent
It's upsetting to be a man in our society. David Mamet
Man Society Our Be A Man Upsetting
They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. David Mamet
You Generation Old Mistakes Say At Least One Previous Study Know Until Making Least Years Same Same Mistakes Experienced They Say Why
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer. David Mamet
Work Out Cheated Know Employer Employers Well Very
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