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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
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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.
