Sam Shepard Quotes
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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History's a resource.
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I am a just man.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances that surround your character.
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Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.
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I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.
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I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
