Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Music is about the performance.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
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I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.
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I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.
