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David Mamet Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Think You Play Write Top

You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.

Confidence Face You Skin Healthy

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

John Henrik Clarke

Good Good Teacher Teacher Attention

Your core is the center of your entire body - everything else is an extension - so you want to make sure you're strong in your entire core and not just part of it.

Strong You Body Want Everything

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

Family Woman Believe I Believe Up

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

Together Creative Proud Think Artist

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Family Government You Royal Well

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Support Space Think Driving You Go

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.

Michelle Alexander

Education Free Legal Discrimination

I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet.

Done Comfortable Talk Things About

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

You Feelings Person Say Playing

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Good Mistakes School Writing Year

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Live Age Interesting Enough You Old

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