Steve Martin Quotes
I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
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Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
