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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
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Banjoist
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Waco
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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
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It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.
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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
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When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
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The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?
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Mirabelle is attractive it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
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The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.
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I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.
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You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
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So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.
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It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.
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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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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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