Sam Shepard Quotes
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
