Sam Shepard Quotes
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
