Adriana Trigiani Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Eye Quotes

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

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Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. 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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The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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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, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

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I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.

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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. 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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It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

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That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

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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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All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

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The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

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Women move through the world never knowing their power.

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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

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If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

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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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The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

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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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