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• At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

  Michael Haneke

  Giving, Flight, Film

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• I'm very caring with animals. I think patience is a big deal, because animals are always jumping around. I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Caring, Thinking, Animal

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• I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

  Boris Johnson

  Swimming, Rivers, Remember

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• For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

  Michio Kaku

  Ice, Law, Relaxation

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• I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

  Lea Michele

  Bars, Clubs, Tables

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• I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

  Keanu Reeves

  Running, Fighting, Point Break

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• I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.

  Ja Rule

  Crazy, Blood, Guy

  "Ja Rule: The ‘I’m In Love With A Church Girl’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

  Jill Scott

  Kids, Thinking, Playing Games

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• First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

  Gene Simmons

  Beautiful, Girl, Sight

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002.

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• The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.

  J.R. Ward

  Feet, Doors, House

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.120, Penguin

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• I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Cheer, Thinking, Talking

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• The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Self Harm, Thinking

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

  Alan Moore

  Skeletons, Closets, Bounds

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• It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Air, Differences

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, People

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• Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

  David Eagleman

  Piano, Pieces, Keyboards

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.13, Vintage

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• Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Crazy, Yummy, Eyebrows

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Boulders, Sound

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.65, Penguin

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• Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Sadness, Mean

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• It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

  Deb Olin Unferth

  Bravery, Risk, Care

  Deb Olin Unferth (2008). “Vacation”, McSweeney's

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• Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Crazy, Wrestling

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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Stupid, Done

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hair, Yelling, Years

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