Sam Shepard Quotes
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
