Amy Purdy Quotes

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Amy Purdy

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 7, 1979

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.

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I have a very good sense of my body and where it's at. Although I don't feel the ground in the same way that somebody else would, I'm very aware... I can feel pressure, and I know exactly where my toes are and exactly where my heel is.

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My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

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Every day that I am healthy, I want to use that day to its fullest now.

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It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

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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.

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I can't really say I miss my toes.

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I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?

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Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

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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.

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I believe inspiration is contagious.

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My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

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I'm not trying to be an inspiration, but I'm flattered to be considered one.

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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.

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Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.

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I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.

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I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.

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As for how do I respond to those who want to throw stones, well, I don't.

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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.

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I knew I loved dancing with my friends.

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