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.
STEVE MARTINIt was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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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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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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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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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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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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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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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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