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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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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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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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength.
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I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
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There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'
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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.
