Sam Shepard Quotes
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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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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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.
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I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
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The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
