Steve Martin Quotes
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.Steve Martin
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul -
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn -
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
Fanny Howe -
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai -
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
Barry Sonnenfeld
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein -
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. Wilson -
I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
Candy Crowley -
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
Patrick Stewart -
There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
Jack Wild
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
Wayne Huizenga -
What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
S. J. Rozan -
It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
Caitriona Balfe -
People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
Irvine Welsh
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
Erykah Badu -
Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
Jay-Z -
I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.
Jack White The White Stripes -
There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.
Vladimir Nabokov -
It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.
Angelina Jolie -
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin