Sam Shepard Quotes
I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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One of the evident facts about the world is the stability of empty space-time. In classical general relativity we can explain this as a consequence of the positive energy theorem... the positive energy theorem must extend in some suitable form to any viable quantum theory of gravity.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
