She didn't jump as well as we hoped she would. She's doing it part time and jumping takes so much time on technique. She would have had to jump a personal record to make the finals.
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Related She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whi... NEIL GAIMAN She came up for a week and we jammed. I think we wrote like six songs for the record that week. When... JEFF DAVIS My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri... DAVID BLAINE She has the best nose for the ball than anybody we have. She plays real hard. It used to be take it ... BILL SYCKS She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb ... KIT WILLIAMS She would probably cry and wonder what in the world she had done to make the other swimmer mad. She ... LINDA HOWARD I don't think I'll ever know as much as she does. It would take a long time for me to catch up. ASHTON DILKA Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end... ADAM BAKER It was so close and she was really disappointed to not get a chance to swim. We call her the 'torped... DANA FOSSMO I didn't start as well as I would have liked to. She really got on top of me early and she didn't le... JAMEA JACKSON She's very involved in gymnastics. She's very athletic, she loves to swim and jump around and she us... JANE WALDMAN In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had ... JAYMA MAYS It came out of nowhere, because she was doing real well. We went on a [Caribbean] cruise the week be... ERIC SLOTTER It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... SARAH DESSEN I thought I played a good match, ... I knew that she can run well and that she likes a certain pace,... SANIA MIRZA She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and we... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'l... C.S. LEWIS What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO Evidence shows that if she was in the house, then she would have to be aware of what was happening. ... MARK PRICE She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS She's an awesome player. She is well-rounded. She has everything ---- passing, hitting, good court s... AMIE HAMILTON Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four. ALEX FERGUSON We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're... JESSICA ENNIS She completely devoured it within a second. ... If she would have been ill for any other medical rea... KATHRYN TUCKER It's hard for a girl that short to see the floor as well as she does. Maybe she is small, but her pa... MARIAH DUNHAM We talked about it and I told her she is here to get through school. I told her I would take her any... BILL HANDER She came to me at halftime and said that she could take (the player guarding her). Tara thinks she t... TOM SUELZLE Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who... LAURA ESQUIVEL When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... STIEG LARSSON She had committed she would come forward and testify and everything that might entail. Obviously she... CHUCK GILLINGHAM She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make ef... SHINZO ABE Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the bloc... DICK YORK What Lindsey did is fine. She tried to throw a bit of style into the jump. Unlucky she caught an edg... GREG BELL She showed incredible patience. She didn't get down on herself and was able to move from sixth to se... ROBYNE JOHNSON What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ... JONATHAN KATZ There were questions about whether we would postpone the game, but she would not have wanted that. S... STEPHANIE FERLITA One of the reasons she was voted unanimous all league is because as a setter she was such a pivotal ... SANDY PRICE She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�... ALI SMITH She's the perfect icon for our time, ... She takes no prisoners, she does whatever she damn well ple... FERN MALLIS She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic patte... JOHN STEINBECK She can jump, handle the ball and shoot it. If she has what she had in the last game, we'll be heade... DAVE PERO She's had such a great year that I'm surprised she would have the time to come, JACK INGRAM He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had p... CHRISTINE FEEHAN The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG One would think that with what little time she had left she would want to do other things. She was h... ALEXANDER SILBIGER The first time we entered her in the high jump in a meet last year she went off the wrong foot and s... BEN BOYD They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc... KATHLEEN WINSOR She advised them that the building would be closed and secured for the evening as it is normally. Sh... CAROL WOOD She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left... ANITA GATTIS How much she wanted it - that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought and turned... VIRGINIA WOOLF I would love to jump back in time and spend a day. JAN FRANCO Brianna Anthony did not even place in the high jump, but she qualified for states and recorded a per... DENNIS DRISCOLL The word would be flummoxed. We don't have any idea how she would measure up, because she doesn't ha... COLLEEN PARRO Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wro... BILL SCHULTZ She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We... STEVE HOLLOWAY [Christy] joined some other girls from her floor who had gathered in the den to watch THe Princess B... ROBIN JONES GUNN The first time she faced Van last year she was extremely nervous and didn't do too well. This time s... JOYCE HEDLUND And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother ... KIERSTEN WHITE Last year I don't think she was as mobile or as strong as she is now. It took her a part of last sea... GLENN CROOKS I was very excited for Melissa Fuller. She's been working really hard. I haven't put her in the 100 ... JULIE WILLIS It was a lot of fun doing 'Felicity.' She had just won the Golden Globe, and she was huge at... SIMON REX If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appe... ARTHUR WEIGALL And she loved to shop. She believed in dressing well as much as possible. DENNIS KELLY I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly p... JULI LAX If she had recognized the person and been able to give us a name or recognize it as being a family m... SCOTT ATKINSON At the time she died, she had a severe medical disease. She did not know what she was doing. DR. XIAOYAN WU She would have to go to the Children's Hospital in [Northern Virginia] every two weeks, then she wou... LEANN SCHMIDT Kubik played with a lot of confidence and scored well. She was aggressive and almost had a double-do... JEFF JUDKINS She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, ... NEIL GAIMAN She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14. WALLACE STEGNER I'm so proud of you," she said, and she supposed she was, or she would have been if her sister hadn'... MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played ... HENRY JAMES Brooke didn't score a lot of points, but she played Hubbard as well as anybody has played Hubbard al... PAM TANNER She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g... JIM HOUDEK The tears were there, waiting to make their escape. But she wouldn’t let them. Not this time. She ... ELAINE WHITE And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE Pina did a lot of driving to the basket but she can make the outside jump shot, too. LISA MANDEVILLE Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that w... SYLVIA PLATH If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ... THOMAS HARDY She couldn't have been doing any better coming into this race. I thought she would run well. HELEN PITTS Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it... RAINBOW ROWELL Kali can definitely make finals. She has the potential to do very well. BECKY TIGHE Here's a Jersey girl who could premiere this film anywhere she wants, but she gave Newark the jump o... JOE PISCOPO And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't re... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work. BRANDON MULL The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make ... STEVE HILTZ She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN She told me, 'It's just sex,' ... She flew to London to let me know how interested she was in the pa... FERNANDO MEIRELLES She told me, 'It's just sex,' ... She flew to London to let me know how interested she was in the p... FERNANDO MEIRELLES It seems like every time she swims that race she sets a record. ELYCE KASTIGAR Every time you would say it, she always would have a twinkle in her eye. DOUG SPRINGER I think she's one of the best five in the world. I think she can jump as high as anybody. DENNIS NOBLES [She was] feeling if she couldn't get through in the days to come, that she would have that, that sh... LYDIA SARTAIN We knew they were ready to jump on us after that brawl with Santiago. We weren't wrestling as well a... JEFF HICKOK She had the chance to protect Kelsey. Kelsey could still be alive if she had done her job as a paren... KATHIE BRIGGS You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetua... LILY KING My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS Nora really got after it tonight. She played like I know she's capable of playing every time she tak... CONCHITA JOHNSON
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The view of Microsoft in... BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w... BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ... BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ... BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision... BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua... BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point. BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems. BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu... BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ... BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&... BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl... BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on... BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t... BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so... BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows. BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago... BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive. BILL GATES