Amy Purdy Quotes
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
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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.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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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.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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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.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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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.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
