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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Waco
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Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.
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I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
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I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
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I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.
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So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.
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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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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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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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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.
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I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
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What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
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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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I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.
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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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