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Interesting people always have a past.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
Interesting
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Always
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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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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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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