People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
More Quotes from David Mamet:
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.David Mamet
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
David Mamet
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
David Mamet
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
David Mamet
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
David Mamet
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: People QuotesEveryone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.
Robert Caro
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
Yannick Noah