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David Mamet Quotes

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1947

Topics

Society Someone Wish Artist Create

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

Great Loved Create Try Kid Study

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Me Know Real Pretty Relate

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

Television Out Hang Planet Seem Any

He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.

Work Think Friends Upset Him See

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life Ending Be True Inevitable True

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Christopher Durang

Grateful Hand Paid Hired Thrilled

There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.

Work Moment Job Rest Think You

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

Claudio Ranieri

Train First Need Players Idea Later

I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.

Dreams Future School Small Acting

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

Education Roads Agriculture Africa

The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.

Home Born Understand Must Homeland

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

Time Me Long Know Long Time Why

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