Amy Purdy Quotes
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'
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When E! ended the show, it wasn't because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.
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If you want something bad enough and you work hard enough, anything's possible.
