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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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 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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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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Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.
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I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.
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The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
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There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
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People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl.
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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.
