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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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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?
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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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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I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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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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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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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 was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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