Adriana Trigiani Quotes
We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then, just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
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I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.
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We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then, just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
