Sam Shepard Quotes

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

Sam Shepard

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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Varley O'Connor
- Facts
- Fact
- Deeper
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt
- Control
- Happiness
- Path
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Jacob Bronowski
- Life
- Up
- Time
When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

Harmony Korine
- Time
- Pretty
- Beginning
I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

Callan McAuliffe
- Bad
- Fall
- Myself
I don't study; I create.

Viktor Korchnoi
- Study
- Create