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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

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
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
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
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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Business Happiness Person Surprise Try Yourself
It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
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
No art comes from the conscious mind.
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Art Conscience Mindset One Liner
It’s pain that changes our lives.
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Change Live One Liner Ourselves Pain
All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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Honesty Myself Pay Work
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Beautiful Believe Money Myself Natural Sex
I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Astrology Believe Luck Myself
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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Believe Equality Myself Stupidity
I love money. I love everything about it.
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Love Money Myself One Liner
It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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Appearance Body Count Self Love Worth

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