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When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
Sam Shepard
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Sam Shepard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1943
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: July 27
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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.
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Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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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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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.
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All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?
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I've heard writers talk about discovering a voice, but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.
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I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.
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