Steve Martin Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
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I might just be the luckiest girl ever.
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You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
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Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.
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I don't want to follow the herd.
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If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
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It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
