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I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.
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You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
Amy Purdy
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Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
Amy Purdy -
Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
Amy Purdy -
Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There's benefits.
Amy Purdy -
My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.
Amy Purdy -
I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?
Amy Purdy -
If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.
Amy Purdy
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I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.
Amy Purdy -
I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.
Amy Purdy -
When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
Amy Purdy -
All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.
Amy Purdy -
I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.
Amy Purdy -
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.
Amy Purdy
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It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.
Amy Purdy -
Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.
Amy Purdy -
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
Amy Purdy -
Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.
Amy Purdy -
We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
Amy Purdy -
I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.
Amy Purdy
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I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.
Amy Purdy -
In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.
Amy Purdy -
I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.
Amy Purdy -
I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
Amy Purdy