Quotes from Sam Shepard movies and TV shows

General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.

Atto: You shouldn't have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours.
General Garrison: 300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war, Mr. Atto. That's genocide.

Garrison: You know, the last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian-Roulette in a bar.

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The Farmer: I always thought that being alone was just something that a man had to put up with. It was like I just got used to it.

The Farmer: You know what I thought when I first saw you?
The Farmer: I thought, "If only I could touch her, then everything'd be all right."
The Farmer: I was afraid of never see you again.

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Chuck Yeager: Hey, Ridley, make another note here, would ya? Must be something wrong with this ol' Mach meter. Jumped plumb off the scale. Gone kinda screwy on me.
Jack Ridley: You go ahead and bust it, we'll fix it. Personally, I think you're seein' things.
Chuck Yeager: Yeah, could be. But I'm still goin' upstairs like a bat outta hell.

Chuck Yeager: Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you something, it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did all right.

Chuck Yeager: I'm a fearless man, but I'm scared to death of you.
Glennis Yeager: Oh no you're not. But you oughta be.

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Frank Coutelle: I know more about the law and the history out here than the people themselves. Let me tell you, I feel for them. They're a proud people. But they're also a conquered people. That means their future is dictated by the nation that conquered them. Rightly or wrongly, that's the way it works, down through history.

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