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Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

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Sam Shepard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1943
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: July 27
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Dramaturge
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Film Director
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Fort Sheridan
Illinois
Samuel Shepard Rogers III
Samuel Sam Shepard Rogers III
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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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When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
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I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.
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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 find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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She refers to her past as the time before she was blown away.
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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.
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I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.
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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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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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Words are tools of imagery in motion.
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Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.
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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.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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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.
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When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.
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There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.
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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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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
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