Adriana Trigiani Quotes
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.
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If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
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I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.
