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My life is not just about the past.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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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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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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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 find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
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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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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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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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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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.
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