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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Ems
Deals
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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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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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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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 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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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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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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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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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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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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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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