Steve Martin Quotes
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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I believe in people, especially suffering people.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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When people say I'm a star, I don't believe it.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
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They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.
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People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
