David Mamet
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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing... 
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your a... 
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing... 
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, a... 
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch yo... 
I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts. 
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just w... 
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part fo... 
Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When ... 
If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you... 
If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're dri... 
If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer... 
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top.... 
Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring. 
Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's ... 
If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by inte... 
Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applica... 
If you're offended, it's your problem. 
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. 
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... 
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your... 
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life dep... 
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. 
With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have ... 
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If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible... 
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If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average... 
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If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because... 
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? 
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