Be so good they can’t ignore you.
STEVE MARTINDespite 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.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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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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I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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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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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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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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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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Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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