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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• 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.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• 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.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
  • Parents

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• 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.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • First
  • Step
  • Brand

• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Fear
  • Perfection
  • No Fear

• I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Liar

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Home
  • Taste
  • Figure

• When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • She
  • Hand
  • Voice

• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Journey
  • End

• The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Believe