Steve Martin Quotes
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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I'm a working-class person, working with class.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.
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Be more grateful, and less worried.
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Hopeless are those who suffers the curse of heaven-so be hopeful.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
