Steve Martin Quotes
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.
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I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
