Sam Shepard Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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Embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for a great mass of Americans – our young people... regardless of how I, or any American, might feel individually, we have an obligation as leaders to communicate with our youth and listen to their ideas and problems.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
