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Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

Steve Martin

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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Ability Element Natural Necessary Quality Yourself
Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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Alcohol Drink Poet Team Writing
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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Believe Foreign Freedom Liberty Myself Rule
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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Need People Relationship Soul Mate Yourself
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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Inspirational Mindset Motivational Spiritual Writing
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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Different Goodness Myself People Promise Talk Unique
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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Audience Comedy Goodness Greatness Ideas Response Work Yourself
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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Audience Better Drive Inspirational Learning Motivational Terrorism Yourself
I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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Drink Myself Price Try
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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Doctor Funny Goodness Myself Sick
I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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Body Funny Home Myself Play Stay Woman
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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Cheerful Happiness Play Sad Yourself
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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Destruction Funny Philosophy
No art comes from the conscious mind.
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Art Conscience Mindset One Liner
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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Alone Break Up Connection Deep Herself Himself Moments Night Relationship Thinking
I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Deep Emotion Happiness Myself Sad Time

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