I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
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On his final record-breaking leap in the long-jump competition.Jesse Owens
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore... It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. No one moves here.
John Waters
Even from the beginning, when I was doing junk television, I still had this focus. I knew I wasn't going to be doing that forever, that I wasn't going to be like that...
Michelle Pfeiffer
I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.
Michelle Pfeiffer
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.
Joseph Heller
"Well, I'm not kissing the mundane. I'd rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever? Forever's an awfully long time."
"I knew it. You want to kiss me, don't you?"Cassandra Clare
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