"My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford."

-- Steve Martin

#Memories Quotes #Loss Quotes #Worry Quotes

“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.”

Source : "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995.
“My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.”
“Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!”
“I run every day now. I never ran before.”
“Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.”

Source : "Justice For Sale". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.
“Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.”
“After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.”

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