Sam Shepard Quotes

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 these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

Sam Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicBalanceSpaceMeWritingYou

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

John Locke

ChangeWorldLongNothingSameFlux

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

Matthew Desmond

HousingBeingSomethingTrivial

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Tom Cavanagh

GoodGreatMeChanceThinkYou

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'

Joy Covey

SchoolPeopleCollegeLunchThinking

In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.

Jason Blum

RelationshipMoneyMoviesLineBig

I'm not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far.

Johnny Weir

TimeDressGoDressesOutUp

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

Dennis Cardoza

GovernmentPeopleConflictForward

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

Daymond John

LookingDoingEnoughAnythingWell

GOP leaders need to let go of their ego factions and come together with one primary goal in mind: keeping 'Billary' from getting back into the Oval Office.

Chuck Norris

TogetherMindEgoBackGoalGo

I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.

Brett Gelman

WhiteGrayJewishLikeTotally

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.

Boris Johnson

HappyPeopleCityBe HappyEarth

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.

Brian Posehn

MoreEverybodyTried

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