Steve Martin Quotes
I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I have a great office.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.
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In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
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Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase - over socks - because your brain just goes, 'I just can't pack again. I can't.' You're looking at your suitcase going, 'I'm in five countries in two weeks, and it's four different seasons.' That's when my brain melts.
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Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
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Your success can't be determined by your surname but only by your work.
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I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.
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The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
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Wrong is for other people.
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
