Steve Martin Quotes
I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
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I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
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There's nobody in the world I'd sooner oblige than you and this young gentleman here. But the whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it!
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I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.
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I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
