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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

Steve Martin

The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
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Cheerful Happiness Play Sad Yourself
All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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Honesty Myself Pay Work
Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
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Act Character Help Identify Life People True Understand Yourself
There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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Need People Relationship Soul Mate Yourself
Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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Appearance Business Perspective Teach
Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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Expectation Inspirational Motivational Room Yourself
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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Believe Equality Myself Stupidity
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Beautiful Believe Money Myself Natural Sex
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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Growth Old Thinking Yourself
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Artitect Dance Music Talk
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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Breathe Business Mistake Myself Worst
I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Deep Emotion Happiness Myself Sad Time
It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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Appearance Confidence Doubt Motivational Myself
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.
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Audience Comedy Goodness Greatness Ideas Response Work Yourself
Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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Kiss Man Sex Start Talk Yourself
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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Ability Element Natural Necessary Quality Yourself

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