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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.

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
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
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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Boredom Comfortable Work Yourself
You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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Life Yourself
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
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 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
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
How many people have never raised their hand before?
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Deep Hands People Question Voice
I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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Book Funny Myself
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
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Artitect Dance Music Talk
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
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 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
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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Carry Father Himself Money Photograph Sadness

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