Sam Shepard Quotes

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Sam Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017

Topics

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Johann Arndt

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Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Robert McChesney

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I would love to play the drums with 'The Who.'

Tom Curren

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I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been trying to do it for 3,000 years. But there is a real issue about the safety of the technique.

Robert Winston

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Please don't quote me.

Mike Piazza

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If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.

Monica Johnson

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Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Jonathan Kozol

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Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

Dee Rees

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The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

Christopher Buckley

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Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in 'Nick and Norah.' People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.

Ari Graynor

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Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

Anthony Doerr

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Growing up, I never felt like I was very pretty, because I didn't look like anyone else, and the boys weren't lining up to get with me. I internalized that and thought there was something wrong with me.

Ashleigh Murray

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