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• My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Real, Grandfather

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• The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, California, Dozen

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• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

  Sam Shepard

  Different, Lucky, Stories

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• I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

  Sam Shepard

  Stars, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”

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• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  Sam Shepard

  New York, Trying, Actors

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• I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.

  Sam Shepard

  Zoos, Stars, Leopards

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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?

  Sam Shepard

  Drama, Father, Interesting

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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.

  Sam Shepard

  Running, Silly, Eye

  Sam Shepard (2009). “Buried Child”, p.99, Vintage

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• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  Sam Shepard

  Play, Three, Half

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• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  Sam Shepard

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Sam Shepard plays with the Butch Cassidy myth" by Mark Olsen, www.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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• I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.

  Sam Shepard

  War, Done, Murder

  Sam Shepard (1976). “Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts”, p.38, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• [Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

  Sam Shepard

  Art, Writing, Crafts

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• Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

  Sam Shepard

  Notes

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• It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Sam Shepard

  Thinking, Stuff, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  Sam Shepard

  Kids, Shots, Wrists

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.

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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.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Play, Want

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• After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.

  Sam Shepard

  Couple, Father, Fall

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