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Play Quotes by Sam Shepard
- Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs…
- I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted…
- Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.
- In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,…
- I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a…
- To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel…
- For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have…
- When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and…
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke. — Arthur Ashe
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster