Sam Shepard Quotes
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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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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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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
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And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.
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Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that's faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you'd have to talk to your kid about phishing before you're talking to him about the birds and the bees?
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
