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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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
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I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.
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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.
