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" Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery. "
Sam Shepard
Emotions
Us
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" There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that. "
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" It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it. "
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" If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end. "
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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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" I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think. "
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" A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material. "
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" More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough. "
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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. "
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Our
Common
America
" The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. "
Sam Shepard
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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 something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. "
Sam Shepard
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Take Care
" I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form. "
Sam Shepard
Chaos
Great
Start
" Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father. "
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Father
You
Parent
" I'm not a big fan of anniversaries. "
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Fan
Big Fan
Big
" To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot. "
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Lot
Believing
Strong
" I think without writing I would feel completely useless. "
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Think
Writing
Without
" On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film. "
Sam Shepard
Travel
Free
Imagination
" When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun. "
Sam Shepard
Ride
Fun
Horse
" All good writing comes out of aloneness. "
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Out
Good Writing
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" I don't attend costume parties. "
Sam Shepard
Attend
Costume
Parties
" I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful. "
Sam Shepard
More
Found
Writing
" Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing. "
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Acting
Me
" To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche. "
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" I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true. "
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Live
" There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over. "
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Places
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