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 MARTINI was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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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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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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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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I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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