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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  Like , Sit , Broken , Horse


If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  You , Yourself , Start , Dead


People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  People , Will , Truth , Looks


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.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  Think , Culture , Face , Violence


Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  You , Think , Understand , Theatre


You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  You , Living , Make , Playwright


My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  Life , You , Looking , Dad


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.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  You , Moment , Good , Great


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.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  Me , People , Think , Good


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.

Author: Sam Shepard - American Playwright
  Home , Feel , Place , Sad


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