How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
STEVE MARTINI 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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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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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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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 thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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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 conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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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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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl’s leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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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.
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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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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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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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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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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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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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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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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