Sam Shepard Quotes
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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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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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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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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.
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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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Imagination - that's the future for us.
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I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
