Jeannette Walls Quotes
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.
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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
