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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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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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.
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You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
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I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.
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Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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With rare exceptions, Hollywood typically casts Spec Ops guys as macho, swaggering strongmen. As usual, Hollywood's got it wrong.
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If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
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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.
