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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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 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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But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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Stillness is the ruler of haste.
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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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The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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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.
