Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTINThe conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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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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