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Thing Quotes by David Mamet
- Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
- There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
- Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go…
- Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the…
- Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
- 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…
- Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they…
- You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see,…
More Thing Quotes
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach