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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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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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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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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There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act.
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The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
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Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
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If you want a friend, buy a dog.
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The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.
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At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
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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.
