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."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."
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."
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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