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Thinking Quotes by Steve Martin

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Steve Martin describes writer’s block as a kind of torture, like being stuck without the next idea. He recalls thinking weddings were simple, then realizing they’re far more complicated. He also says movies are mainly about having fun, not about delivering a hidden message.

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It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

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I think communication is so firsbern.

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Or is it that I think too much?

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I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

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I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary…

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“Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.”

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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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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

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College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

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I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in…

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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is…

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I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring,…

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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…

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Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose…

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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…

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I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing…

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To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you…

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It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good…

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If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I…

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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…

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For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually…

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If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are…

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Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it…

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I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire…

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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is…

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Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them…

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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around…

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I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got…

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The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I…

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I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film…

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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…

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I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many…

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I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you…

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Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys…

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There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of…

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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…

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“These experiences have caused him to think very hard about what he is doing and where he is going. And the result…

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I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and…

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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around…

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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To…

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Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing…

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I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear,…

“Be undeniably good.”

When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has…

“Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was…

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions…

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the…

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer…