Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTINThe banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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Now let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
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Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.
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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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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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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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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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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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