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 really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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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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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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