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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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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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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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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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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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.
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It's crazy to see all the fans, and it's cool to see them all support each other - it all feels like one big family.
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So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
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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.
