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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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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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
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To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
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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.
