Sam Shepard Quotes
I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.