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Interesting people always have a past.
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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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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In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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My life is not just about the past.
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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.
Jeannette Walls
If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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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Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal.
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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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We're stronger than we realize.
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Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
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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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