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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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.
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I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
