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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Optimism
Acts
Self
Prophecy
Fulfilling
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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.
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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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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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