David Mamet Quotes

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

David Mamet

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Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.

Jeremy Sisto

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

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I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.

John Tesh

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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

Mary Beard

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We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

Mike McCready

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I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.

Minnie Driver

LiveWorldYouKnowBeingJust

I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class.

Jordan Klepper

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Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life.

Diego Della Valle

LifeBestWantWhateverThingsVery

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

Anthony Lewis

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I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Alice Walker

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A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Alison Jackson

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