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 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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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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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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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are a kid, please ask mum and dad before you watch that one!
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.
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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.
