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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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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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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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it’s time for a fight.
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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.
