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Jeannette Walls

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MICHAEL ONDAATJE (Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.
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JOANIE EWING The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l...
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BETTY SMITH She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam...
IAN MCEWAN Survive
...
Some women survive
by creating walls,
big walls guarding their heart...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was...
DAVID WEBER Our coach told us she would be the X-factor, and she was. She was amazing. We had our hands in her f...
AMY DONOVAN Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
DANIELLE STEEL When she was reading she wasn’t the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn’t the one no one ever noticed....
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PAULO COELHO Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
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JEANNETTE WALLS The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't co...
JEANNETTE WALLS So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we ar...
JEANNETTE WALLS You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You h...
JEANNETTE WALLS Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
JEANNETTE WALLS I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
JEANNETTE WALLS One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
JEANNETTE WALLS I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or ev...
JEANNETTE WALLS My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
JEANNETTE WALLS I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake.
JEANNETTE WALLS What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming,...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you ar...
JEANNETTE WALLS It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I not...
JEANNETTE WALLS As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think ...
JEANNETTE WALLS It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look for...
JEANNETTE WALLS People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize wh...
JEANNETTE WALLS That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute...
JEANNETTE WALLS You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If y...
JEANNETTE WALLS I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn&#...
JEANNETTE WALLS I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
JEANNETTE WALLS Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your star...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
JEANNETTE WALLS Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that...
JEANNETTE WALLS The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mot...
JEANNETTE WALLS I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the windo...
JEANNETTE WALLS When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us abo...
JEANNETTE WALLS Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behav...
JEANNETTE WALLS There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could...
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JEANNETTE WALLS We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bun...
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JEANNETTE WALLS You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man
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JEANNETTE WALLS I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
JEANNETTE WALLS Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you go”, she said. She said that...
JEANNETTE WALLS Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
JEANNETTE WALLS It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
JEANNETTE WALLS I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all...
JEANNETTE WALLS I hate Erma," I told Mom...
"You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should ...
JEANNETTE WALLS You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one p...
JEANNETTE WALLS Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who li...
JEANNETTE WALLS Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good fo...
JEANNETTE WALLS Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same...
JEANNETTE WALLS Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook ...
JEANNETTE WALLS But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the pl...
JEANNETTE WALLS We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of c...
JEANNETTE WALLS Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
JEANNETTE WALLS One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
JEANNETTE WALLS No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one...
JEANNETTE WALLS I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't a...
JEANNETTE WALLS I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to ha...
JEANNETTE WALLS I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept ...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
JEANNETTE WALLS ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture...
JEANNETTE WALLS One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age w...
JEANNETTE WALLS A lady's hair is her crowning glory
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JEANNETTE WALLS If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
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JEANNETTE WALLS I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
JEANNETTE WALLS Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your star...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
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JEANNETTE WALLS The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mot...
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JEANNETTE WALLS Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you go”, she said. She said that...
JEANNETTE WALLS Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
JEANNETTE WALLS It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
JEANNETTE WALLS I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all...
JEANNETTE WALLS I hate Erma," I told Mom...
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JEANNETTE WALLS Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who li...
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JEANNETTE WALLS Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same...
JEANNETTE WALLS Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook ...
JEANNETTE WALLS But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the pl...
JEANNETTE WALLS We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of c...
JEANNETTE WALLS Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
JEANNETTE WALLS One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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JEANNETTE WALLS I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept ...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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JEANNETTE WALLS If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
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ANDREW WALLS It just felt like home to me. I took my other visits just to make sure, ... I didn't silent verbal [...
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ANDREW WALLS [Sunday night] I got about 20 phone calls from players and coaches,
ANDREW WALLS but I couldn't see myself being a Gator.
ANDREW WALLS It's the University of Notre Dame,
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CHRISTIAN WALLS Had school been in session, we would have lost half that generation.
CHRISTIAN WALLS This game stands out for the simple reason we are playing Valdosta.
JAY WALLS We have told Scott that it doesn't matter who we are playing. He has to have poise, protect the foot...
JAY WALLS No. 1 (Demetrius James) is an outstanding running back. He has good vision and he runs hard and fast...
JAY WALLS They are much better than their record. They are 3-2, but we think of them as a 5-0 team.
JAY WALLS We've had to preach to be aggressive, but to do it within the context of our offensive system. We ca...
JAKE WALLS I'm proud of him. He really came out and played well today. We need him to score to beat teams. He i...
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JAKE WALLS Nothing rattles him. He's just a leader. Any kind of situation, he's pretty much ready for it.
LENNY WALLS It really doesn't limit you from doing anything. It just doesn't allow you to overextend, which I do...
LENNY WALLS It's nothing to get hyped about. I should be in practice in a couple days.
LENNY WALLS It's already behind me. It's not how you start, it's how you finish.
LENNY WALLS Don't count 2-4 (Bailey's number) being out just yet.
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LENNY WALLS I will regain my 'A' game. I will keep going.
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LINDSAY WALLS I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.
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JEANNETTE RANKIN You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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JEANNETTE RANKIN What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot...
JEANNETTE RANKIN The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorab...
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JEANNETTE RANKIN Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go
JEANNETTE RANKIN As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else
JEANNETTE RANKIN You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake
JEANNETTE RANKIN You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive-only the rat does as well.
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JEANNETTE RANKIN You know, at this juncture, all we can do is pray it doesn't come this way and tear us up.
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JEANNETTE ALFONSO Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
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