Steve Martin Quotes
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
