Steve Martin Quotes
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
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"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.
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I know many Europeans and I think many of them don't even believe me when I say that people in US don't have vacations. Obviously a lot of people do but there are many, tens of millions of people that don't and there's certainly no guarantee of a vacation. So paid time off is very valuable where people know they could get four or five weeks vacation, which is absolutely standard in Europe. Denmark has 6 weeks. So I think that's something that's very valuable, giving people time off.
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I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.
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In my research, I found that since 1979, women have lost the equivalent to one night's sleep due to the pressures of balancing work and family. And as more women have gone into the work force because they have to, and when you discriminate against a woman's pay you discriminate against her children or her husband or her significant other in terms of what the family income is.
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
