Steve Martin Quotes
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
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I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.
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Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy — he didn’t feel much like singing.
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Sometimes in life, there are no second chances
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[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
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Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.
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Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
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There is more to talking than just words.
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The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.
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I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.
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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
