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.

Steve Martin

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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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• 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.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • World
  • Progress
  • Prison

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Music
  • Art
  • America

• Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Science

• Cast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insufficient tactOne must put up barriersTo keep oneself intact - Limelight (1981)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Up

• It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Matthew Hayden
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • America
  • Free
  • Path

• I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Done

• Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Important
  • Writing

• I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

• I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Air