Now And Then Quotes - Page 13

• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Jobs, Thinking, Lucky

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

  Julian Cope

  Guitar, Piano, Choices

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• I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me.

  Erica Durance

  Mean, People, Giving

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• Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

  Lita Ford

  Party, Serious

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• Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

  James Laughlin

  Gertrude, Bells, Clicks

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• For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Years, Ice, Three

  "The GQ+A: Vanilla Ice". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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• It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, Flying, President

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• Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Yesterday, Middle Of Nowhere

  Song: Do It Again

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• Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Light, Two

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.301

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• Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Wine, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.

  Collin Raye

  Romantic, Loving You, You Again

  Song: Love, Me

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• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Stars, Tvs, Supermarkets

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• Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

  Adam Pascal

  Series

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• People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Fighting, Long, People

  "On-Location Interview: Johnny Knoxville". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Wind

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• Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

  Bob Seger

  Special, Nails

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• I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

  Pat Morita

  Retirement, Horse, Golf

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Important, Theatre, Directors

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• There's a narrow bit which is still possible, which is left from all of the ones you can't do right now, and then you make the best out of that. You wouldn't have done that by yourself at any other moment of time.

  Nils Frahm

  Done, Moments, Stills

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• Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

  Robert Adams

  "Robert Adams Retrospective ‘The Place We Live’ Comes To Yale University Art Gallery". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hummingbirds

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• That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

  Alan Vega

  Nice, Today, Buttons

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• Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Play, Singers, Musician

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• We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Thinking, Break Through

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