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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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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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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We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
