Steve Martin Quotes
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
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If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!
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We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.
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I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Language can do what it can’t say.
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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
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There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
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My age doesn't matter. I'm a good pitcher. Once I'm on my game, I can't fail.
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I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
