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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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 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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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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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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To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
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To have a tournament right where you live is very cool.
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You think about when you're kids and see these guys on TV, and now you're in the same clubhouse as Chipper Jones and Bobby Cox.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'
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And suppose that you lived in that forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants-eating plants! But your pants are safe! You're a fortunate guy. And you ought to be shouting, 'How lucky am I!'
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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I'm just happy to be doing what I always wanted to do. Sometimes you have to remind yourself how privileged you are.
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I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.
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My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.
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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
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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.
