Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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More Steve Martin Quotes
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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 just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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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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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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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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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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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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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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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 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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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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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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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 will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
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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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