Steve Martin Quotes
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Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
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The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
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Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.
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Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
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You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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She was feeling her bohemian oats.
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You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.
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At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
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I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
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How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?
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It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.
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I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.
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Comedy is not pretty.
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I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.
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introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
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I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.