Jeannette Walls Quotes
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
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Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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I hate it when people ask “What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?” Like. Awfully bold of you to assume I’ve reached peak dumbness.
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I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'
