David Mamet Quotes

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

David Mamet

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There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Joe Dempsie

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All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't even have a personality completely become different human beings because of the training.

Jennifer Coolidge

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Sun Tzu

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By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

Tom Shales

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And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

Jon Secada

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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

Dick Wolf

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If you regret anything in your life, then you haven't learned any lessons.

Debbie Rowe

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I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

Chris Evans

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I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

Christopher Young

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As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

Bryan Cranston

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If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.

Prince Philip

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