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I won't ever do e-mail. (David Mamet)
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways. View quote
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television. View quote
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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. View quote
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. View quote
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They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. View quote
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society. View quote
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. View quote
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. View quote
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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order. View quote
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. (David Mamet)
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. View quote
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I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. View quote
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I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail. View quote
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Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions. Page 28. View quote
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Patel? Fuck you. Fuckin' Shiva handed him a million dollars, told him sign the deal, he wouldn't sign. And Vishnu, too into the bargain. View quote
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Fuck the machine? FUCK THE MACHINE! What is this, courtesy class? You're fucked, Rick. View quote
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What the hell are you? You're a fuckin' secretary. Fuck you. That's my message to ya: fuck you and kiss my ass, and if you don't like it baby I'm going across the street to Jerry Graff, period, fuck you. Now, I want you to put me on the cadillac board and I want two promising leads and I don't want any bullshit and I want them close together because I am going to close them all, and that is all I have to say to you! [flips him off]. View quote
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