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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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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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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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.
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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
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Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
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I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
