Steve Martin Quotes

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Steve Martin

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MusicWorldYouLookKindAnything

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

Aminatta Forna

WarThinkCountryWantWriteWould

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

Steve Crocker

SpaceMeSecurityContentUpOwn

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

Stormzy

MeKnowKidUpBooksEven

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Sloane Crosley

FrustrationNameLightsPersonal

I love Mel Gibson... I'd like to ask him for a job.

Travis Fimmel

LoveJobAskHimLikeI Love

Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea.

Rita Moreno

GoodThoughtNameTrueFirstYes

Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

Ronnie Wood

GreatWaitMoreSheCapableSee

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

LearningSchoolGoDoneOutUp

Years ago, I couldn't get arrested in commercials because of my look: 'Is he Jewish, Hispanic, or African-American?' I ended up doing voiceover work, which has been great. Honestly, I can't complain.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

WorkGreatDoingLookJewishUp

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

Suzan-Lori Parks

MusicTruthSpacePeopleBlackKind

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

Peter Tork

FunNightBluesPlaySameSet

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

Pete du Pont

GovernmentWithoutComingKnownOur

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