Steve Martin Quotes

I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.

  

  Cam
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Desire

• Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Work
  • Done
  • Interesting

• I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

  

  Phil Robertson

• Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.

  

  Chris Crawford
  • Game
  • Trust
  • Betrayal

• The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

  

  Jennifer Beals

• A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

  

  Anna Held
  • Work
  • She

• I want to try and pay back the confidence and care that the people at Atletico have always shown me.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • People
  • Confidence

• I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.

  

  Donald O'Connor
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Energy

• I'm dying to do a 'Gambit' movie with Channing Tatum.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Movie
  • Dying

• For every single show you do, make sure you go out and literally try to beat what you did the day before. It's something that you can incorporate into everything you do. If you're constantly trying to beat your best, over time it will help you grow.

  

  Chris Young
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • Men

• I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Narrative
  • Flashback

• You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Afraid
  • Good Things

• I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.

  

  Steve Martin
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  • Today