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 know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it
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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.