Sam Shepard Quotes
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
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One's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?
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Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in
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'You don't go by odds. You know what's coming. You've seen the cards already.' She studied his face intently. 'No, you can't be cold-decked. It wouldn't be possible.'
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What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
