Sam Shepard quotes - page 3

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone. (Sam Shepard)
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence. View quote
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Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission. View quote
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. View quote
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The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is. View quote
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I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. View quote
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When you die it's the end of your life. View quote
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons. View quote
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go. View quote
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side. View quote
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody. (Sam Shepard)
I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star. View quote
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When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth. View quote
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play. View quote
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