Sam Shepard Quotes

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

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• By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Time
  • Bad
  • End

• Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Space
  • Confidence
  • Problems

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Know

• I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Person
  • Model
  • Beauty

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • High
  • Theatre

• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Start
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  • Eating

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
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• Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Ever

• I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Mountain
  • Climbing

• SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Want

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Sound

• We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Small

• When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Song
  • Hurt

• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
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• I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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  • Know
  • Said

• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Key
  • Ring
  • Metallica

• When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
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