Steve Martin Quotes
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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Music has always been really important to me.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
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No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
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It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.
