Sam Shepard Quotes
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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People trash talk me.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point!
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
