Amy Purdy Quotes
In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I do not like violence.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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Salutations
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
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In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
