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You 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…
- Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of…
- You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
- I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be…
- In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the…
- 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…
- I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly…
- 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…
- Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to…
- 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…
- My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide