Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
ADRIANA TRIGIANISomeone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
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The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
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Money doesn’t have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person.
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Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don’t feed the source, it dissipates entirely.
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If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.
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How dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what’s funny, how to build distinctive and original characters.
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The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,
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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
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Taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
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I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.
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All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me.
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I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
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