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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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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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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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody 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'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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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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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
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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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That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.
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So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
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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.
