Steve Martin Quotes
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.
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People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!
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Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest oneHave limits to its mercy; God has none.
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I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.
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A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
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When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
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Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.
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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
