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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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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In this era, you must deliberately preserve and cultivate your most valuable connections to people, activities, and whatever else is most important to you. Anyone can cultivate these connections, drawing from them the strength and will a person needs to handle the best and worst of life, but only if you plan to do so and insist on adhering to your plan.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
