Al Purdy Quotes
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.
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If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.
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It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
