Steve Martin Quotes
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
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I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
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In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.
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I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
