Sam Shepard Quotes
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
