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• Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

  Christian Bale

  Light, People, Acting

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dance, Daughter, Sex

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Cutting, Boys

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• The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Survival, Kind

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• Nature does not proceed by leaps.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Spiritual, Doe, Spirituality

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• Black Poets should live--not leap
  From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  Etheridge Knight

  Boys, Bridges, White

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Taken, Hippie

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• Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.

  Darren Walker

  Thinking, Order, Leader

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• Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Player, Average

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• The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Air, Cocoons

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• I--love's skein upon the ground,
  My body in the tomb--
  Shall leap into the light lost
  In my mother's womb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.

  Mitali Perkins

  Girl, Strong, Character

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• What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

  Larry R. Williams

  Break Out, Looks, Causes

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• In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

  Corita Kent

  Carpe Diem, Giants, Would Be

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• A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

  Marcel Proust

  Motivational, Dance, Dancing

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust. Ed. with a Translation by Justin O'Brien”

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• Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

  John Dewey

  Invasion, Inference, Known

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.162, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

  Dana Perino

  Careers, Decision, Married

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith

  Michael Scofield

  Preparation, Leap Of Faith

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• I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."

  Amber Tamblyn

  Dark, Thinking, Talking

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

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• To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

  John Cage

  Stills

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• Worried about a skin condition? Leap smartly into a bath of porridge.

  Terry Wogan

  Skins, Baths, Worried

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• Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?

  Stephen Fry

  Clever, Stupid, People

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• Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

  Rene Thom

  Ignorance, Statistics, Mechanic

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• In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

  Larry Niven

  Simple, Challenges, Scream

  Larry Niven (2014). “Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One”, p.29, Macmillan

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• I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

  Diane Lane

  Romantic Love, Goal, Sometimes

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

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