Sam Shepard Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Since this art surpasses all human subtelty and the perspecuity of mortal talent and is truly a celestial gift and a very clear test of the capacity of man's minds, whoever applies himself to it will believe that there is nothing that he cannot understand.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
