Amy Purdy Quotes
Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.
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I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.
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I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
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Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.
