Amy Purdy Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.
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Time is money in the shipping business.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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You don't have to be positive all the time.
