"Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels."

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Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

Jeannette Walls

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“Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.”
“Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.”
“The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.”
“The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.”
“While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.”
“It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio. I'd love to have a hit single. However, I also want to be in the business a long time and longevity is something that we all wanted. In order to have that, you have to be true to what you do and to each other.”

Source : "60 minutes" with Dan Rather, www.cbsnews.com. November 19, 2003.
“Brand is everything, the stuff you want to communicate to consumers and the stuff you communicate despite yourself.”
“It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.”

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