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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
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My life is not just about the past.
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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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Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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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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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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No one expected you to amount to much, she told me. Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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 really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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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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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
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