Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 12
Hello, this is Harris. I'm in right now, so you can talk to me personally. Please start talking at the sound of the beep.
We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.
I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
The auction houses seemed not as dull as their financial counterparts on Wall Street, where parents of daughters imagined glass celings and bottom patting.
These times are much franker. For example, in the first movie we have to assume that the daughter and the son-in-law who got married were lovers before they got married. That could never have been in the '50s.
I just think they should get a fair shake. They didn't. They didn't have the rights regular criminals get.
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
There's a point when you're famous and it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And there's a moment when you're famous just right.
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
I wrote a novel this year called "Shop Girl", and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you`re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending... that`s going to cost you."
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
It takes time though for owners and trainers to invest that additional purse money to start cultivating that better racing product.
I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and I was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: they're crouching and hidden.