J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it."
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Bumps
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Cary Grant
Actor
"If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
Maya Banks
Author
"Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road."
Russell Crowe
Actor
"If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled."
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"Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session."
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"Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
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"Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics."
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"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."
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"I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it."
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"My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it."
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"Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'"
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"The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into."
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"A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?"
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"I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot."
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"When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things."
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"Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it."
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"...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing."
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"Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth."
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