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Quote by David Mamet
You know, young actors say all the time, Should I use my own life

You know, young actors say all the time, Should I use my own life experience? And my response is, What choice do you have? – David Mamet

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. – David Mamet

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Religion
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David Mamet
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Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

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Morning
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves dont get right. – Thomas Huxley

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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. – Joyce Maynard

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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures! – Yani Tseng

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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you dont, theres no hope for you. – Orson Scott Card

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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. – English Proverb

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I dont have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee. – Natalie Coughlin

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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words. – Samuel Goldwyn

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But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them. – Alexander McCall Smith

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