Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration."
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"Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration."
"تعلّمتُ على مرّ السنين أنه لا ضرر في شحن الذات بالأوهام بين لحظات الإلهام الصادق."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening."
"الكوميديا هي تشويه لما يجري، وسيظل هناك دائمًا شيء يجري."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."
"...فالتدريس، في نهاية المطاف، ضربٌ من ضروب فنون الاستعراض."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps."
"كنت أبتغي الأصالة الفكاهية، فإذا بالشهرة تحلّ عليّ عرضًا. كان دربي يتسم بالكدح لا بالبطولة؛ فلم أناضل بشجاعة في وجه المرتابين، بل سرت بخطوات متأنية ومتتابعة، تتخللها قفزات حدسية قليلة."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"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 knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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