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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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 deals only with international calls. It is generally for far shorter periods of time. And it is not designed to collect reams of intelligence, but to detect and warn and prevent about attacks.
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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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You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.
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To me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I'm a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that's saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.
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If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.
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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.
