Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIRelief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me.
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All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I’ve waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember.
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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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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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They only go after what they know they can get.
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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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We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.
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I don’t settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
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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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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea.
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The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it’s a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself.
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Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.
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A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
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Trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer’s intent.
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Ireland has never been more beautiful – the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.
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A feat she had never believed possible
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I wish I was the kind who made up stories.
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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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With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.
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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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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery.
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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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All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.
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I even love the smell of books.
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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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