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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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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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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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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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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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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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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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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Until you have seen a herd of elephants, until you've see gazelles leap together, you can't imagine the beauty.
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If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
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History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
