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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
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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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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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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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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
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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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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
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Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
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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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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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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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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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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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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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