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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 Martin

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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Appearance Business Perspective Teach
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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Criticize Himself Man Walk Way Yourself
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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Breathe Business Mistake Myself Worst
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
I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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Experience Imagination Life Myself Reality Stand
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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Harm Illusion Inspirational Learning Moments Myself
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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Growth Old Thinking Yourself
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Boy Different Language Word
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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Carry Father Himself Money Photograph Sadness
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
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
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
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Act Actor Collaboration Team Work Yourself
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 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
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
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

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.

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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.

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