Sam Shepard Quotes

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

Sam Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.

Jesmyn Ward

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As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

John James Audubon

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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Robert Morgan

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That's not so important to me, that time thing.

Max Cannon

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Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

Robbie Lawler

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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

Dennis Rodman

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I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

Wynonna Judd

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When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

Susan Orlean

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Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.

Peter Thiel

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I love showing people that I wasn't that guy, the guy in 'Will & Grace.'

Sean Hayes

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