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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 was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it. ↗

— Steve Martin

#books #bought #discipline #doing #enjoyed

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely. ↗

— Steve Martin

#book #definitely #doing #how #i

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. ↗

— Steve Martin

#bit #compulsive #craft #want #whatever

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#completely #exercised #fact #healthy #individual

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. ↗

— James Martineau

#exclusively #god #incarnation #man #true

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#condition #half #none #other #over

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'. ↗

— James Martineau

#god #highest #his #living #man

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. ↗

— James Martineau

#divine #god #holding #mankind #mind

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#america #american #american dream #anything #better