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Sam Shepard Quotes

I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Ideas Think Short Trying Early Play

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

Relationship Time Death Me Spend

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

Time You Situation Important Exist

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Myself Me American Irish Raised

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Me Theatre Acting Want Actor Saw

Tactics are manipulative.

Tactics Manipulative

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

Women Freedom Fight Control Stand Up

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

People World Debate Wrong More Side

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

Eating Believe You Nuts Just Kids

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

Myself Me Exercise Look Want Eat

As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.

Time Believe Will Birth Everyone

I like doing Zumba. I only do it like, once a week. If I did it more often, I would be very skinny.

Doing Week More Skinny Only Would

Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.

Richard Dawkins

Future War Help Irreplaceable Era

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