Jeannette Walls Quotes
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
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Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.
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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
