Amy Purdy Quotes

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

Amy Purdy

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• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Job
  • Same

• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Think
  • Past

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Work
  • America
  • Feeling

• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Action

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • School
  • Character
  • Law

• Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • World
  • Today

• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Experience

• One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Desire
  • Period

• My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Time
  • Environment

• When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Life
  • Empowering