Steve Martin Quotes
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each other much more doing it that way. We have to be more generous.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
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As a painting teacher I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it.. .If you don't want to be serious about playing at art, do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.
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'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.
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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
