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• To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Mean, Together

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• Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Adversity, Two

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.8, Pearson Education

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• I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

  Eric Idle

  Trying, Different, Audience

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Winter, Journey

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• Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

  Lee Trevino

  Funny, Golf, Turtles

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• No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Sports, Volleyball

  Sheryl Swoopes, Greg Brown (1996). “Bounce Back”, Taylor Pub

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• Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

  Taylor Swift

  Pages

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• Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Support You, Editors

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• Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Lucky, Roles, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Fighting, Lunch

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• Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

  Pink

  Long, Choices, Everyday

  "Pink Flashes Cleavage On The Cover Of Glamour And Reveals Which Boy Bander She Used To Date", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

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• The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Strong, Mistake

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• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

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• All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Self, Knowing

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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• Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

  Tom Robbins

  Music, Sweet, Pain

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

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• The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Night, Light

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.1, Spectra

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• Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we bounce into each other like floundering atoms. It’s really kind of gross – which is why I hang out with you. But only because you’re less gross than they are. (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Devil, Atoms, Jargon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

  Anne Carson

  Want, Ifs

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Thinking, Choices, Flags

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  One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

  Nick Saban

  Team, Adversity, Overcoming

  Nick Saban, Brian Curtis (2007). “How Good Do You Want to Be?: A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Ideas, Profound

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• My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

  Kirby Larson

  Dream, Clouds, Mind

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.3, Yearling

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• You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

  Ralph Nader

  Adversity, Thinking, Luxury

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• Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Castles, Tumbling

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.543, Macmillan

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