Sam Shepard Quotes

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

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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To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are.

Andreja Pejic

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I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

Maya Hawke

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We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

Robert J. Shiller

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I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

Angelique Kerber

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I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around - literally flying in and out of bowls - that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly.

Tony Hawk

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What people like to comment on a lot is that I grew up in a religious family; my father is a pastor, and now I'm playing the devil. Thankfully, my family see the humorous side of the job.

Tom Ellis

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It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.

Ruth Rendell

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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Rudolf Hilferding

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Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.

Christopher Fowler

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I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

Brittany Snow

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Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

Ari Graynor

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Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

Perfume Genius

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