Steve Martin Quotes
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
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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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I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.
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We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
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I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.
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There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.
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There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.
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Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.
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If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
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At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.
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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
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I like movies I can relate to.
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There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
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I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.
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Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.
