My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIA practical girl never pines; she takes action.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.
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No matter how large a horse’s ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.
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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships – they can’t. It interferes.
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I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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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 things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you.
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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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You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now.
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Food is so important – it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun.
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Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.
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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me.
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There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.
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