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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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 wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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