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Wants Quotes by David Mamet
- As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
- There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.
- The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to…
- Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
- Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
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- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall
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- I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he… — Michele Bachmann
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same… — James A. Baldwin
- My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants. — Stephen Baldwin
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