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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.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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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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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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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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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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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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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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Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
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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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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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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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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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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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Interesting people always have a past.
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