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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Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
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Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.
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I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.
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Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.
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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
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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.
