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Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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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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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
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Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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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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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Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
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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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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
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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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