QUOTES by Steve Martin
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"The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes me want to go on a diet of grapes and waste away to nothing."
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"They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant."
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"He knows only what is right in front of him; she is aware of every incoming sensation that glances obliquely against her soft, fragile core"
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"The auction houses seemed not as dull as their financial counterparts on Wall Street, where parents of daughters imagined glass celings and bottom patting."
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"Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events."
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"Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening."
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"I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else."
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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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"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."
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"He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile."
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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 mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies."
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"Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus Be dull and boring and omnipresent Criticize things you don't know about Be oblong and have your knees removed"
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"Be tasteless, rude, and offensive, Live in a swamp and be three dimensional, Put a live chicken in your underwear, Get all excited and go to a yawning festival."
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"If you occasionally wonder how I know about some of the events I describe in this book, I don't. I have found that--just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience."
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"A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true.” L.A. Story (1991) – Harris Telemacher (Steve Martin)"
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"So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background."
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"I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87."
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"...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums."
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"...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs."
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"I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night."
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"She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses."
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"I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."
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"I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."
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"Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place."
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". . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me."
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"I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?"
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"Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up."
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"Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen."
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"…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…"
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"Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized."
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