Steve Martin Quotes
There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
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The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
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I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
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There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
