Steve Martin Quotes
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
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I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
