Steve Martin Quotes
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.
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Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
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When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
