Jeannette Walls Quotes

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

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• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • Saying
  • Without

• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Want
  • Security

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Blame

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Grade

• Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Successful

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Dreams

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Grease

• Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mediocrity
  • Ambitious

• I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Survival

• On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Space

• I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Writing