Steve Martin Quotes

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Steve Martin

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If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Jimmy Scott

SingingStoryYouRightTell

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

Robert Kurson

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The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Robert Lopez

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'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

John Waters

ChangePeopleLaughPoliticalLook

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

Steve Bartlett

PeopleTalkingYouNewKnowMeet

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Steve Prefontaine

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Rollo May

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I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Mona Eltahawy

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Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

Chick Hearn

GoodSportsGreatArtJobYou

With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Chris Squire

HistoryPeopleThinkRock And Roll

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

Colm Toibin

GoodGodThinkThinkingClothesOut

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