Steve Martin Quotes
I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.Steve Martin
Quotes to Explore
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps -
I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
Zhang Ziyi -
It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
Xavier Rudd -
Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
Laura Dern -
All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
Rachel Tucker
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Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.
Felipe VI of Spain -
It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
Olivia Wilde -
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Imogene Coca -
I think that once you’ve seen the ways in which lots of these animals are killed and how brutal and grotesque and unnecessary it is, I think that people would automatically choose not to wear fur.
Tamara Ecclestone -
You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.
Kahlil Gibran -
I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
Austin Butler
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Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.
David Brenner -
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
Bruce Nauman -
Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.
Tyler, The Creator -
I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
Bill Murray -
I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
Jesse Ventura -
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
Colleen Hoover
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Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.
Eric Metaxas -
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Dick Van Dyke -
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
Adrien Brody -
I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
Dan Coats -
I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes
W. G. Grace -
I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.
Steve Martin