Jeannette Walls Quotes
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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The digital revolution will bring massive benefits, for viewers and the industry, and confirm Britain's position as the world leader.
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Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
