William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest"
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Now And Then
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Jordan Hill
Football Player
"Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east."
Brian Wilson
Musician
"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."
Jerry Lee Lewis
Musician
"Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then."
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"I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then."
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"Play what you know and then play above that"
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"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
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"I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out."
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"Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way."
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"In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate."
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"I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldnt say I have a major sweet tooth."
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"Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one."
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"Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose."
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"Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls."
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"Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched."
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"Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be."
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"Now and then I find a kitschy series I love."
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"A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men."
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"I miss basketball every now and then."
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"I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do."
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"Every now and then we're going to fail."
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"Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny."
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"If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe."
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"An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others."
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