Steve Martin Quotes
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All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
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Being on Twitter is like having a fern.
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... you're nuts but you're welcome here.
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As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
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I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
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Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
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Or is it that I think too much?
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I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.
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Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.
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To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
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I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
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When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.
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I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.
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She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.
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I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.