David Mamet Quotes

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

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GreatHeroStruggleEndGoalDrama

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

Jodhi May

ExperienceThinkTalkingDrawingMay

There is a wall that's built up that leads us to believe we can't move at work, but that's not the case. We need to find those pockets of time where we can take care of ourselves.

Jessie Pavelka

WorkTimeBelieveCareTake CareUp

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

John Doolittle

DecisionBullyingSchoolNowOkay

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

Robert H. Grubbs

FatherMotherHomeConstructionBorn

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Robert Herrick

HomeSoulBodyHousePoorWhose

That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.

Jeff Hardy

MeMomentsCreatingImportantLast

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

Michael Graves

GoodDayMindDesignEvery DayUsed

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Steve Carell

GodChildrenWordsLookingYouMore

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Sturgill Simpson

HistoryTimeProgressSurviveYou

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Sienna Miller

AloneBeing AloneComfortableMore

I've always hated oppression.

Rodrigo Duterte

OppressionAlwaysHated

I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don't see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid's birthdays, anniversaries. I'll never be able to go back and be with my family.

Mo Farah

WorkFamilyDayMeHellYear

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