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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.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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People
Diamond
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Watches
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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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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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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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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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
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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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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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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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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
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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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