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“When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.”

People Years Stills Play Song Months Couple Fairs Seven Weekend Now And Then Festivals Touring Gigs Digging Louisiana Seven Months Digging Deep

Author:Hunter Hayes

“A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and then is all your dog asks.”

Kind Littles Asks Attention Dog Now And Then Kind Words

Author:Louis Sabin

“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”

People Knows Now And Then

Book:Confess: A Novel

Source: Confess: A Novel

“I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.”

People Ifs Want Hard Five Minutes Like You Now And Then Frustrating Five Minutes Glamorous Bad Thoughts

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.”

Gone Alive Theatre Now And Then

Author:Kevin Spacey

“It's definitely fun to play something you're not, which is always a good time. Who doesn't want to get to act like a jerk or a douche, every now and then?”

Want Play Fun Good Times Now And Then Jerk Douches

Author:Rob Riggle

“I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.”

Ifs Want Would Be Past Used Fun Hours Walks Television Couple Phones Cells Paris Parks Lunch Now And Then Broadway Maxims Convenient Cell Phone Dentist Antibiotics Anesthetics Walks In The Park

Author:Woody Allen

“I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.”

Way Done Hands Actors Waiting Minutes Ready Arms Directors Corners Shakes Now And Then Up And Down Rehearsal Tedious Bounce Waiting Around

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.”

Trying I Can Play Might Focus Offers Shapes Refuse Active Now And Then Charitable Charitable Work

Author:Andre Agassi

“My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.”

Long Humor Funny Names Girlfriend Spells Now And Then Screws My Girlfriend Screw Ups New Girlfriend Old Girlfriend

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Swiss cheese is the only cheese you can draw and people can identify. You can draw American cheese, but someone will think it's cheddar. It's the only cheese you can bite and miss. "Hey Mitch - does that sandwich have cheese on it?" "Every now and then!"”

People Thinking Doe Humor Funny Missing Draws Hey Bites Now And Then Cheese Sandwiches Swiss Cheddar Swiss Cheese

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.”

People Father Names Causes Decided Honestly Grandmother Call Me Now And Then My Grandmother Nicknames Gucci

Author:Gucci Mane

“I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.”

People Whole Laughing Shock Throwing Now And Then Toes Fastballs

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie.”

Knows Persons Hate Talking Fronts Normal I Hate Glasses Boxes Studios Stuck Now And Then Engineers Desks Talkies Front Desk Walkie Talkies

Author:Marilyn Manson

“People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'”

People Want I Can Play Asks Shots Golf Ask Me Now And Then Because I Can

Author:Mia Hamm

“Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'”

Knows Kind Sometimes Reason Truth Economy Theory Alternatives Controlled Formulas Now And Then Subjective Compatible

Book:Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

“I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.”

People Feels Desire Stuff Messages Appreciate Scripts Pops Obligation Dumb Now And Then Tweet Responding Appreciate People

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"”

People Trying Years Two Book Ideas Humor Funny Three Proud Conversation Pages Hundred Hey No Idea Fifty Three Years Now And Then Proud Of Myself

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.”

Stills Choices Enjoy Exercise Healthy Activity Eating Thoughtful Now And Then Indulge Eating Healthy

Author:Miranda Kerr

“Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.”

People Want Persons Turns Sides Class Huge Lucky Projects Built Now And Then Representatives Get Real

Author:Emmett Shear

“My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.”

Kind Ideas Inspiration Now And Then Truth Comes Out

Author:Philip Schultz

“Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level.”

Ifs Knows Body Wanted Bits Levels Conditions Highest Athlete Now And Then Pigs Junk Junk Food

Author:William Katt

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

“For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.”

Looks May Ends Actors Speak Bits Chance Ability Dangerous Fool Gold Silly Pot Now And Then Rainbow Take A Chance Pot Of Gold

Author:Max Irons

“Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.”

Knows Funny Success Successful Now And Then Comets Halley's Comet

Author:Ross Perot

“Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.”

Has Beens I Can Voice Clear Illness Mental Illness Now And Then Manic Depressive Voices In My Head

Author:Brian Wilson

“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.”

Past Fall Sound Differences Simple Ears Solve Rhythm Now And Then Recalls Abiding Cloaks Forecasts

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.”

Men Should Persons Done Action Greater Independence Now And Then Thoughts And Actions Badass Women Independence Of Thought Encouraging Others

Book:Last flight

Source: Last flight

“Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.”

World May I Can Play Joy Please Connections Endure All Time Attractive Guarantees Now And Then Interfere Cages Disagreement Confinement

Book:Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

Source: Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

“Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying House Trouble Serious Husband Foundation Paint Now And Then Roof Coats Furniture Think Of You Your Husband

Book:There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

Source: There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.”

Real Enough Running Past Games Lost Poor Economy Planets Capitalism Infinite Now And Then Irrelevant Lure Insisting Hares Greyhounds

Book:A Short History Of Progress

Source: A Short History Of Progress

“And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.”

People Knows Term Treasure Hunting Now And Then Hunts Bugs Treasure Hunt Sims

Author:Will Wright

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

Littles Girl Next Literature Married Prejudice Likes Now And Then Infatuation Jane Being Married Happy Girl Pride And Prejudice Pride Pride And Prejudice Book Mrs Bennet

Author:Jane Austen

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”

Men Inspiring Laughing Laughter Witty Tongue Wit Now And Then Ridicule Jane Stumbling Abusive International Women's Day Pride And Prejudice Book Always Laughing

Author:Jane Austen

“History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.”

History Virtue Crime Mets Folly Collections Misfortunes Now And Then Happy Times

Book:The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history

Source: The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history

“Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.”

May Easier Conversation Laughter Now And Then Symphony Chorus Discharge

Book:The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.”

Inspiration Numbers Poet Bird Wings Iron Pens Now And Then Eagles Geese Slumber Plunder Metallic

Author:John Adams

“A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.”

Men May Ten Prove Curse Sheep Now And Then Foe

Book:The Fables of John Gay Illustrated

Source: The Fables of John Gay Illustrated

“The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.”

Men Love Sometimes Matter Love Is Comedy Stage Tragedy Now And Then Fury Mischief Sirens

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Littles Break Rich Cutting Healthy Lust Gods Will Diets Chocolate Mentality Now And Then Dessert Calories Tasty

Book:Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

Source: Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

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

Should War Peace Now And Then Admiral

Author:Voltaire

“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."”

Firsts Moments Character Together First Time Shooting Intimate Now And Then Youtube Clip Reminiscing Scully Intimate Moments

Author:Gillian Anderson

“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.”

Want Kind Ideas Play Body Differences Interesting Issues Hero Machines Bigger Various Dare Heavy Be Kind Heroic Now And Then Just Being Body Image Good And Bad Barrels Dieting Abdomen

Author:Ben Affleck

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

People Knows Want Should Writing Play Casts Now And Then

Author:James Gray

“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.”

People Littles Made Stills I Can Wanted Used Laughing Jokes Tables Comedian Now And Then

Author:Missy Elliot

“I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird. And then with MySpace, I just don't read messages. I delete everything, and I just post updates every now and then.”

People Able Fans Havens Messages Pages Posts Now And Then Really Weird Updates Pseudonyms

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.”

Thinking Years Kind Different Behinds Doors Stage Movement Years Ago Climate March Now And Then Urgency Closed Doors Lobbying Behind Closed Doors

Author:Avi Lewis

“Every now and then, I might listen to music, but I try not to listen to it too much because when you turn on the radio and hear the same song over and over again. You won't appreciate it as much; it won't be as fresh.”

Trying Might Song Turns Too Much Appreciate Radio Now And Then Listening To Music Turn-on

Author:Chamillionaire

“Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.”

Girl Relief Now And Then

Author:Mark Twain

“Every now and then, a technology comes along that is so profound, so powerful, so universal, that its impact will change everything. It will transform every institution in the world. It will create winners and losers, will change the way we do business, the way we teach our children, communicate and interact as individuals.”

World Way Children Individual Powerful Teach Technology Universal Our Children Institutions Impact Profound Communicate Winner Loser Now And Then Winner And Loser

Author:Lou Gerstner

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