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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

- Sam Shepard
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

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.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.

I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

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 see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.