Sam Shepard Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
Sam Rockwell -
Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
Pankaj Mishra -
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
Lafcadio Hearn -
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne Dyer -
Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
Gary Bauer
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
Kate Williams -
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust -
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis -
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
Taraji P. Henson -
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
M. F. Husain -
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
Jack Kevorkian -
Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
Tania Raymonde -
I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
Victor Mature -
If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
Malcolm X -
But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Ted Shackelford
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I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.
B. J. Daniels -
My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.
Eugene Richards -
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
Kevin Spacey -
I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda -
I am always relaxed.
Sam Shepard