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Sam Shepard Quotes

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Theatre Think You Powerful

If there's an energy between two people it doesn't matter what you look like or what you do for a living or where you live.

Live People Energy You Look Living

Some fathers raise their daughters to be seen and not heard; they raise their daughters not to speak out. Raise strong women!

Women Speak Strong Strong Women Out

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

Leader New Order Giver

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

Job I Am Village Granddaughter First

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

Situation React Horrible Happens How

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Easy Look Situation Kind Living Big

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

Winter Goals Team Listening Night

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.

Night Looking Uncomfortable Sometimes

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Time Grace Timing Individual Social

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

Jonathan Brandis

Children School Small End Drunk

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

Story Internet You Back Late See

I make money not so much from acting but my travelogue.

Shenaz Treasury

Money Acting Make Much

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