Sam Shepard Quotes
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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I am who I am.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.
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You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.
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My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
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Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
