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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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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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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Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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I hated 'Avatar' from the jump. And I like James Cameron. I'm not opposed to James Cameron.
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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.
