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.
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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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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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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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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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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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 not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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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’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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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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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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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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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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