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Amy Purdy Quotes

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me His Gave Dad

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Rich Feelings Buddy Drummers About

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

Yourself Me Fighting You Early Need

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

Character Time Story Always Where

I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

Teacher School High School Acting Go

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Michael Ignatieff

Truth Politics People Society End

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

Character Great Trees Grow Like He

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

Life Book My Life Find Pretty Would

Traditional media brand advertising is 65% to 70% spend; online, it's like 28%. You've got a huge margin.

Advertising Brand Media You Got

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

Work Think Distance Exploring Us

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

Time Past Sound Because Like Use

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Life Day Death Present Every Day

I'm not desensitized to death.

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