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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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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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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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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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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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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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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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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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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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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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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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