Now And Then Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  Ian Rankin

  Thinking, Past, Scotland

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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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• Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, Play, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Mean, Simple, Leaving

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• A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Economy, Sportsman

  'My Remarkable Uncle' (1942) p. 73

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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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• 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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• 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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• Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Effort, Understanding, Covenant

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• I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Bats, Use

  Washington Post On Bandwagon, Reagan Seeks to Stiffen Credibility Grip 20 April 1980 (A8)

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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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• 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 carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

  Franz Liszt

  Heart, Sadness, Sound

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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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• All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.

  Gregory Maguire

  Voice, Ends, Graves

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

  John Lennon

  Chips, Shoulders, Stills

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• Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

  Jimmy Page

  Angel, Journey, Wings

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• You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

  James Gray

  Writing, Play, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Should

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• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  Ben Affleck

  Hero, Issues, Play

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

  Neil Armstrong

  Airplane, Missing, Excitement

  "Neil Armstrong Dead: First Man On The Moon Dies At 82", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2012.

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• Every now and then we'd meet up and reminisce about the characters. At the beginning, shortly after we started shooting, someone sent me some clips put together on youtube. It was the first time I'd seen something like that. "The intimate moments of Mulder and Scully."

  Gillian Anderson

  Character, Intimate Moments, Together

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

  Missy Elliot

  People, Laughing, Comedian

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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