#it

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it. ↗

— Steve Martin

#credit #feel #i #like #skills

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#choose #evolution #faith #just #matter

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. ↗

— Steve Martin

#actor #because #constructing #else #first

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. ↗

— Steve Martin

#comedy #laugh #making #people #puke

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ↗

— Steve Martin

#apology #bah #beneath #cowardly #dignity

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. ↗

— Steve Martin

#automatic #automatically #bothered #comedians #day

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ↗

— Steve Martin

#comedy #comic #course #did #fame

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. ↗

— Steve Martin

#also #because #casual #childhood #circumstances

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. ↗

— Steve Martin

#always #audience #banjo #comedy #desperately

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#educational #ensuring #envy #future #homeland