Steve Martin Quotes
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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Whereas it might be erroneous to claim that the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance revolutionized the practice of democracy in the United States, it would not be an error to point out that the ideas they championed did impact America's understanding, and subsequently its application, of democracy.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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Cast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insufficient tactOne must put up barriersTo keep oneself intact - Limelight (1981)
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
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As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
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Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.
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I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
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I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!
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It's such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it's windy, you'll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.
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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
