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 think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'
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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.
