Sam Shepard Quotes
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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Oh rainy day woman,I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.
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Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
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If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.
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You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
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I remember being on a plane a few years ago. And me and this woman sat coldly next to each other for a cross-country trip, fighting over the arm rest the whole time. But then, about an hour before we landed, we noticed that we both had on 'Housewives,' and suddenly, we were best friends.
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Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.
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We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.
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I don't attend costume parties.