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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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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It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.
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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.
