Steve Martin Quotes
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
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We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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We spent the next three years working up a nice, sweet society band and then realized that although we had plenty of class appeal, we had little or no mass appeal. So we started all over again and reorganized to get some jump and rhythm. But through it all we've tried to play the type of music that fits in with soft lights and sweet whispers.
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Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
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I've learned a few things about ugly memories--they shoot through the heart like a bullet that maims and disfigures. A bullet that doesn't have the decency to kill.
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When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.
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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
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I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
