Sam Shepard Quotes
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond.
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The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
