Sam Shepard Quotes
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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I can't do any competitive sport myself!
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
