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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London
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It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.
Simon Sinek
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
George Jean Nathan
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I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.
Tracy K. Smith
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I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.


Keith Stanfield
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Kenneth Koch
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People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.


Jason Statham
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I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.


Jimmy Walker
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I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.


Lee Daniels
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When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.
Steve Carell
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.


Ian Williams
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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.


Julian Barnes
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse
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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
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.


Guillaume Apollinaire
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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.


Joseph Butler
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'
Neil Gaiman
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