David Mamet Quotes

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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You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

Jennifer McMahon

WorldStoryFaceYouNothingWrite

I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

John le Carre

MarriageLiveStruggleMeYearPen

For me, open source is a moral thing.

Matt Mullenweg

MeMoralOpenSourceOpen Source

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

Shoshannah Stern

FamilyCommunicationI AmPeopleUp

The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will advance missile defense technology for us and other allies.

Rob Portman

TechnologyWillWayDefendSystem

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

Mike Gordon

MusicSongDirectionYouBackPlay

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

Mike Huckabee

Being ThereHumanInsideHuman Being

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MusicMeKnowImportantMovies

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Douglas Hyde

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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

EnvironmentalTaxSayEconomyOver

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

Normani Kordei

CompassionPeopleThinkLovingAbout

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

Nigel Mansell

Too MuchNowEverythingWholeBeen

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