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"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy."

"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy."

Kylie Minogue, Australian Musician

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"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."

"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

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"If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it."

"If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it."

Jim Coleman, American Actor

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"Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then."

"Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then."

Marcel Dionne, Canadian Athlete

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"We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships."

"We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships."

Tom Tancredo, American Politician

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"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."

"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

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"Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all."

"Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all."

Jeremy Irons, English Actor

Now, Theater, Training

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"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."

"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."

Jerry Pournelle, American Journalist

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"The good old days are now."

"The good old days are now."

Tom Clancy, American Novelist

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"But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit."

"But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit."

Denise Richards, American Actress

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"I'm a more mature actress now."

"I'm a more mature actress now."

Eliza Dushku, American Actress

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"I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does."

"I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does."

Harry Anderson, American Actor

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"When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity."

"When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity."

Gene Ween, American Musician

Now, Popularity, Writing

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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

Peter Davison, British Actor

Now, Poems, Present, Years

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"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."

"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."

George Soros, Hungarian Businessman

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"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."

"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

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"It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now."

"It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now."

Daniel Yergin, American Author

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"I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now."

"I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now."

James Gandolfini, American Actor

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"I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things."

"I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things."

Dennis Ritchie, American Scientist

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"This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us."

"This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us."

Marc Forne Molne, Andorran Politician

Now, Principles, Understanding, Will

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"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator."

"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator."

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian Lawyer

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"Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences."

"Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences."

George G. Simpson, American Paleontologist

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"I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?"

"I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?"

Geri Halliwell, British Musician

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"At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad."

"At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad."

Keith Emerson, British Musician

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"I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials."

"I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials."

Ashley Scott, American Actress

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"I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging."

"I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging."

Art Garfunkel, American Musician

Now, Saying, Sense, Song

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"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."

"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."

Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Musician

Now, Support, Teaching

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"I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over."

"I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

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"Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet."

"Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet."

Karrie Webb, Australian Athlete

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"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."

Orson Welles, American Actor

Now, Order, Quotations, Shakespeare

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"I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?"

"I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?"

Mary Chesnut, American Author

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"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."

"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."

Marlene Dietrich, American Actress

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"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true."

"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

Now, Saying, Wrong

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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."

"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

Now, Old, Respect

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"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"

"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

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"I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then."

"I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then."

Michelle Rodriguez, American Actress

Now, Saying, Want

46

"Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody."

"Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody."

Richard Petty, American Athlete

46

"When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer."

"When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer."

Francesca Annis, English Actress

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"I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this."

"I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this."

Joe Pantoliano, American Actor

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"What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world."

"What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

46

"I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity."

"I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity."

Natalie Portman, American Actress

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"I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired."

"I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired."

Jacky Ickx, Belgian Celebrity

Now, Racing, Years

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"But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print."

"But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print."

Peter Sotos, American Writer

Now, Right, Writing

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"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."

"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."

Christopher Parker, English Actor

Now, Want, Weight

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"Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates."

"Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates."

Franklin Raines, American Businessman

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"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."

"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."

"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."

Nick Lowe, English Musician

46

"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."

"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."

Saadi, Iranian Poet

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"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."

"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."

Mary Pickford, Canadian Actress

Now, Order, Years

46

"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."

"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

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