No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIThe only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you’ve solved the mystery.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
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Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
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My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.
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People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house.
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I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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The intimacy. The deepest level of love.
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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea.
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A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
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But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
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I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work.
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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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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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To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.
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In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
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Isn’t this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives.
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And then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.
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When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
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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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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated.
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Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren’t looking for it and didn’t plan on it.
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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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Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better.
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I wish I was the kind who made up stories.
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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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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk.
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