Steve Martin Quotes
In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the music starts playing. Always old-school hip-hop. Jay-Z. Tribe Called Quest. The Pharcyde. My parents love that stuff.
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I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.
