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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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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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After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'
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I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
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I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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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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It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.
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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
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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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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.
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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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