Amy Purdy Quotes
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
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Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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When someone has a large change in their wealth, you'll find someone who's much more inclined to revisit all aspects of their financial circumstances.
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If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
