Steve Martin Quotes
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.
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God blesses him who helps his brother.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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I'm just portraying this guy.
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I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
