Sam Shepard Quotes
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Might have been the moonlight,Caught up in the sparkle in your eyes.So wicked and I know I should go slow but it's not in me to wait.Cause I'm alive and I'm on fire.Shot like a starburst into the sky.And the fury of desire it burns so bright electrifiesYou light me up, you take me higher.
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I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing rapping. I liked dancing, so I did that.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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But this principle of race is unfortunately one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
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I love watching 'UFC' - Ultimate Fighting Championship - I don't know why, because I'm more of a coward than a fighter, but I seem to be very drawn to these blokes actually smashing each other to bits.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
