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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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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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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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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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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 West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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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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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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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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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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