"Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm -- cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing."

-- Sam Shepard

#Country Quotes #Horse Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world”
“I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.”
“I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.”
“I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.”
“I try to just take in every moment of being alive.”

Source : "Laura Ramsey, Hindsight Actor Interview: Failure and Growth". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.”
“Great comedy calls large matters into question.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner
“I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.”

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