Steve Martin Quotes
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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 I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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It's pain that changes our lives.
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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.
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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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If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
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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 tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
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A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
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Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
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Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
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I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.