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Something Quotes by David Mamet
- Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something…
- As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
- People only speak to get something.
- Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled…
- People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
- The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him…
- There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.
- The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle