Sam Shepard Quotes
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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Bald is the new black!
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
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Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
