Amy Purdy Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
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I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.
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I can't always live my life for everybody else.
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I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.
