Sam Shepard Quotes
I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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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.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Never shop alone for your bridal dress. Take a friend and bring a camera to take a picture of you. Make sure to get a picture of the back view: that's the part of the dress most people are going to see for the longest time.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
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I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
