A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
STEVE MARTINThrough the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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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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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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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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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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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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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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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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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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