Jeannette Walls Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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My hunger is always there.
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I would like to direct.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I'm not musical myself.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I'm tired of hearing about 'Damages,' I don't care how life-changing 'The Wire' is, and I don't want to hear another word about 'Battlestar Galactica' or its super-awesome ending.
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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
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Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
