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Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
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Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
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