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Amy Purdy Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1979

Topics

Car Sister Down Got Chevy License

The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.

Financial Crisis Financial Crisis

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

Work Live School College Speak Year

We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.

American Will Cannot Gamble Lives

We just make clothes, but for some, that's an important thing.

Robert J. Fisher

Clothes Important Make Just Some

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Change History Moment Start You

Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.

Family Art Me Direction Feel Museum

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Way Lovely Years Sixteen Those Then

The KKK members that I was dealing with never saw me because my interaction with them occurred over the phone. They were convinced that I was 1) white, and 2) a racial supremacist like them based strictly on my telephone conversation with them.

Me Conversation Phone White Never

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.

College Acting Lying Studying Up

One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.

Love Courage Baseball Mom Growing Up

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

College Up San Francisco Ballet Grew

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

Music Reflection Think Honest Stones

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