"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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"A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one."
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"Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?"
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"Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America."
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"Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky."
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"Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up."
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"A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour."
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"Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then."
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"I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then."
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"If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child."
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