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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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Talent
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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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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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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 find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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