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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ↗

— David Mamet

#american #american football #ball #east #football

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. ↗

— David Mamet

#difference #entertainment #graph #mass #plotted

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. ↗

— David Mamet

#conscious #constant #culture #evolves #exists

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. ↗

— David Mamet

#get #grew #gun #i #just

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer. ↗

— David Mamet

#employer #employers #i #know #out

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have. ↗

— David Mamet

#backstage #doctors #everybody #find #go

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. ↗

— David Mamet

#changed #decades #i #i believe #liberal

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #coming #could #day #drawback