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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Wanted
Always
Journalist
Serious

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No one expected you to amount to much, she told me. Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
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That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
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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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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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