Sam Shepard Quotes
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
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There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
