Steve Martin Quotes
It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
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It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
