{"author":"Steve Martin","author_id":"Steve+Martin","total_quotes":45,"quotes":[{"text":"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["music","talking","like "],"id":7221,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["beauty","truth"],"id":12619,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"...Just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["insightful","inspirational","thoughtful"],"id":12914,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["success","me","comedy "],"id":14699,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["chaos","order","midst "],"id":15315,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["criticize","empathy","funny","humor"],"id":53355,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...But, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["humor","religion","science"],"id":60807,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["comedy","humor"],"id":62785,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["creativity"],"id":71116,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"},{"text":"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.","author":"Steve Martin","tags":["humor"],"id":77144,"author_id":"Steve+Martin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}