Sam Shepard Quotes
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Sentimentality is probably the biggest enemy for the magazine business. You have to embrace the future.
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Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
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There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
