#own

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. ↗

— Steve Martin

#crystal #get #hosting #i #like

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea. ↗

— Steve Martin

#americanized #anyone #ask #classic #could

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. ↗

— Steve Martin

#basic #book #down #earl #get

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven. ↗

— Steve Martin

#good #heaven #just #like #one thing

I am my own person. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#i #i am #my own #own #person

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#control #does #fate #him #his

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. ↗

— Karl Marx

#always #been #civilization #comparison #completely

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. ↗

— John Masefield

#ask #down #go #her #i

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#every man #failing #failure #king #like

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing. ↗

— Nick Mason

#car #down #how #management #marketing