Amy Purdy Quotes
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
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The drunk kids, the catholicsThey’re all about the sameThey’re waiting for somethingHoping to be saved
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
