Steve Martin Quotes
You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
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I will miss the association with the players and coaches. It has been a great ride.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
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Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.
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Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.
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Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.
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It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
