Sam Shepard Quotes
If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
