Steve Martin Quotes
I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.
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One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
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My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
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Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.
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Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
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One thing I learned about people is that they love to give their opinions about things.
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I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.
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I had heard some Elvis songs on the radio. During Christmastime, they'd play 'Blue Christmas,' and I knew I liked his songs, but I didn't know who it was singing them. I just knew I liked them... I started reading, watching, and just picking up everything I could about him.
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All adventure is now reactionary.
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I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.
