Steve Martin Quotes
Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.
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Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.
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As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.
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My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.
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I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.
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There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
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I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.
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There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
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Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
