Amy Purdy Quotes
We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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I really like getting the person who is terrified of cooking into the kitchen and showing them that cooking can be both indulgent and fun.
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I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.
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I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!
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In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.
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He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
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We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.