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I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can't lift it.
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It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.
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I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.
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The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.
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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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When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
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Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
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Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.
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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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She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn't even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life's happiest days.
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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
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When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…
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She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.
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I have found that — just as in real life — imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.
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She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.
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The auction houses seemed not as dull as their financial counterparts on Wall Street, where parents of daughters imagined glass ceilings and bottom patting.
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.
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People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director."
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Born:
August 14, 1945
(age 78)
Bio:
Stephen Glenn Steve Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show.
Known for:
The Jerk (1979)
Roxanne (2013)
Bowfinger (1999)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
L.A. Story (1991)
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