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Amy Purdy
American
Actress
Born:
Nov 7
,
1979
Life
Lost
Me
Myself
People
You
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I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
Amy Purdy
Love
Rain
Smell
Ocean
Waves
Sound
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
Amy Purdy
Life
You
Book
My Life
Changed
Would
How
Go
Were
Question
Forever
Author
Want
Story
Your
I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
Amy Purdy
Life
Future
Me
Focus
My Life
Saved
Gave
Say
About
Something
Always
Passionate
Snowboarding
Reason
I'm a big oatmeal fan. For my every-morning breakfast, I will do oatmeal with cinnamon, goat's milk or even butter, with apples and raisins, and then I'll maybe do some eggs, say two poached eggs with that.
Amy Purdy
Will
Big
Breakfast
Say
Oatmeal
Some
Goat
Eggs
Maybe
Fan
Then
Even
Milk
Apples
Butter
Two
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.
Amy Purdy
Work
Myself
Me
Gratitude
Work Hard
Competition
Strong
Better
Envy
Focus
Sense
Rather
More
Through
Looked
Forces
Always
Than
Snowboarding
Want
Which
Succeed
Lens
Really
Hard
Competitors
I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
Amy Purdy
Lost
Organ
Had
Hearing
Lot
Left
Internal
Ear
Damage
I'm very grateful that I've had the opportunities I've had.
Amy Purdy
Grateful
Opportunities
Had
Very
You don't have to be positive all the time.
Amy Purdy
Positive
Time
You
I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.
Amy Purdy
Money
Car
Think
About
Like
Anything
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
Amy Purdy
Life
Took
Lead
Empowering
Disease
Legs
Them
Realized
Full
Eventually
Need
I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.
Amy Purdy
Sad
Myself
Me
People
Girl
Other
See
Disabled
Know
Want
Either
I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.
Amy Purdy
Creativity
Think
Limitless
Clothing
Designs
I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
Amy Purdy
Kind
Over-The-Top
Am
Person
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
Car
Sister
Down
License
Blazer
Got
Passed
Chevy
Very
Turned
Much
Starter
That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.
Amy Purdy
Technology
Amazing
Athletes
About
Potential
Allowing
Reach
Them
Really
Full
Full Potential
Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.
Amy Purdy
Life
Time
Old
My Life
Lost
Extremely
Beyond
Course
Years
Done
Legs
Much
Traumatic
Suddenly
I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski resorts close to Las Vegas, up in Mount Charleston or Brian Head, so I grew up skiing and snowboarding.
Amy Purdy
You
Charleston
Some
Born
Vegas
Head
Know
Got
Up
Mount
Close
Snowboarding
Grew
Ski
Skiing
Brian
Actually
Las Vegas
Raised
I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
Amy Purdy
Lost
Worse
Only
Because
Felt
Always
Been
Legs
Much
Really
Lucky
I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
Amy Purdy
Challenge
Guess
Always
Up
Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.
Amy Purdy
First
Dancers
About
Know
Arms
First Thing
How
Gracefully
Hands
Move
The First Thing
Thing
I like moving, challenging myself.
Amy Purdy
Myself
Like
Moving
Challenging
Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
Amy Purdy
Matter
Clothes
One Thing
Entirely
Taking
Off
Different
Legs
Your
Thing
To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.
Amy Purdy
You
People
Amazing
Walk
Down
Recognize
Able
Somehow
Touched
Because
Just
Stop
Just Because
Them
Personally
Street
The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn't going to compensate because it's just one piece of carbon fiber.
Amy Purdy
You
Balance
Mistake
Fiber
Back
Foot
Step
Wrong
Piece
Make
Because
Spot
Going
Human
Maybe
Just
Just One
Little
Forth
Your
Carbon
Compensate
Muscles
Bones
We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.
Amy Purdy
You
Challenges
Roadblocks
Obstacles
Them
Use
Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.
Amy Purdy
Stronger
Become
Ways
Disadvantage
Had
Prosthetic
Also
Because
Got
Yeah
Lot
Any
Just
Just Because
Legs
Mean
Really
Two
Adapt
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