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 only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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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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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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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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When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.
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In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering.
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
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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.