Steve Martin Quotes
Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.Steve Martin
Quotes to Explore
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
Malcolm Gladwell -
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben -
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
Parker Posey -
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
Jackie Speier -
My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
Lara Spencer
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I don't get hung up on weight.
Jack Black -
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
Harold Feinstein -
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
Gao Xingjian -
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
Orhan Pamuk -
I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
Salma Hayek -
It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
Gary Bettman
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
Adam Smith -
The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
Alexander Wang -
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
Krzysztof Kieslowski -
In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.
Mark Shand -
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
Alice Englert -
I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like to wear since I style myself.
Kygo
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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Douglas Coupland -
I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.
Leroy Hood -
Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
Lara Stone -
Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
Carl Honore -
Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.
Steve Martin