Amy Purdy Quotes
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I write music every day.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.
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Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
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Durmiendo sueño lo que despierto sueño. Y mi soñar es continuo.
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Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.
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Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.
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I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
