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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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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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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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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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
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Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
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Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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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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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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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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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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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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