I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.
David MametYou get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you canโt do one of those three things, you ainโt going to get any money.
David MametIt is the writerโs job to make the play interesting. It is the actorโs job to make the performance truthful.
David MametThe secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
David MametThe Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet