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Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

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 not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. ↗

— David Mamet

#altogether #appear #bad #bad thing #believed

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. ↗

— Roger Caras

#greatest #historical #museums #others #our

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#connect #despair #doing #figure #find

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. ↗

— William Manchester

#boudoir #could #forth #guessed #her

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#country #every #grows #hollywood #nations

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. ↗

— David Mamet

#else #everybody #everybody else #greedy #i

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 admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. ↗

— David Mamet

#admire #asked #degree #down #english

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. ↗

— David Mamet

#bad time #costumes #had #how #ideas