If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens you will end up disappointed.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIAll the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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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 cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.
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It doesn’t. What matters is what you make. Whether it’s a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
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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 knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
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The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on.
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The intimacy. The deepest level of love.
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The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather.
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I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
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But a child’s joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son’s laughter began to her heart.
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But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
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Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat.
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I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work.
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A library is a home filled with our stories.
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