Steve Martin Quotes
The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
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To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
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Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.
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Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
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The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.
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Big, obedient, patient Clydesdales. I loved them.
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My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.
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I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.
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A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
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Regaining the title from the thief who stole it from me.
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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
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When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
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The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.