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• You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

  Andy Warhol

  Heart, Faithful, Beats

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

  Plutarch

  Men, Elephants, Solemnity

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Miscellanies and Essays”

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• On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

  Wendy Cope

  Goodbye, Song, Heart

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Nice, Thinking, Laughing

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.132, Penguin Group

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• I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

  Portia de Rossi

  Reality, Thinking, Getting Older

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

  Hulk Hogan

  Judging, Rope, Tissues

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• Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Fasting

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• Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Ink, Hops

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.133, Random House

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• Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Grandfather, Generations

  "Self-help for nerds: advice from comedian Chris Hardwick". www.wired.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

  Regina Brett

  Father, Book, Reality

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• I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

  E. Nesbit

  Writing, People, Wonder

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

  Arthur Smith

  Believe, Sister In Law, Narrative

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• I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

  Randy Travis

  School, Class, Want

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• I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Europe, Week, Ends

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• Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow. “It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.” “Ought to be?” Aline look worried.

  Cassandra Clare

  Party, Past, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1233, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a flat tummy, but I'm not rock hard. If I'm going to be in a bikini, I'll train more and skip desserts for a couple of weeks. But usually, I work out to feel good.

  Nina Dobrev

  Couple, Rocks, Work Out

  "Nina Dobrev's Secrets to Getting Sexy" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him it wasn't turning his little girl into a streetwalker." "I never said that," Dad said. "No?" I said. "Cool. Cause I've decided to skip the paw print. I'm thinking of a tramp stamp with flames that says 'Hot in Here.' No wait. Arrows. For directionally challenged guys

  Kelley Armstrong

  Tattoo, Girl, Mom

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

  Kenneth Oppel

  Moving, Meat, Waste

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

  Nicholas Johnson

  Moral, Advertising, Viewers

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• You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

  Burt Ward

  Maturity, Years, Balance

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• Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.

  Jerry Stahl

  Song, Dark, Waiting

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• I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

  George Clinton

  Growing Up, Heart, School

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• When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Childhood, Biographies

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Voice, People

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• The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Play, Blood

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.4

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