Jeannette Walls Quotes
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.
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Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
