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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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. – David Mamet

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Computers
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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. – David Mamet

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Government
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. – David Mamet

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Society
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But its a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. – Emma Watson

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Parents of recovered children, and Ive met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply natures course. We all know better, and frankly were too busy helping other parents to really care. – Jenny McCarthy

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Experience

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. – Imran Khan

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I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why arent there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism? – Jenny McCarthy

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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. – Sir Walter Scott

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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether thats even possible, interested me. – Ian Mcewan

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Whats the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. – Terry Bradshaw

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