Sam shepard
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
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I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place...
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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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...
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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can...
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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's...
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(Applause) In "Just Kids" there is a description of your first performance at St Mark's church in February 10, 1971. Yeah, it was Bertold Brecht's birthday....
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