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.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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'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.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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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.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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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.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
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I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
