Sam Shepard Quotes
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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Train hard, train hard, train hard.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
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The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'
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Men lie all the time.
