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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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.
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I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.
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New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.
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The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.
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That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
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You don't have to be positive all the time.
