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 MARTINIt’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
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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 love money. I love everything about it.
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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 to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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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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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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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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I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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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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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 just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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