Jeannette Walls Quotes
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that they would challenge the government, but we have fought every challenge effectively. The daily ups and down of democracy should not be interpreted as lack of stability.
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I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.
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I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
