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From Quotes by Steve Martin
- No art comes from the conscious mind.
- The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is…
- I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came…
- [her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could…
- Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.
- Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from…
- But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can…
- His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is…
- I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And…
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