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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Quality
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Redeeming

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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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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 listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
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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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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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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
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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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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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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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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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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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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
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