Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

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• I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Have Fun

• I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Trust
  • Find

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feeling
  • Anymore
  • Kansas

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Decathlon

• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Community
  • Always
  • Israel

• Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Real
  • Character
  • Myself

• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • Black
  • Terrorism

• I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Man
  • Proud

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Best
  • Try

• Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Hunger

• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • World
  • View

• From a planning perspective, I thought Compton was phenomenal. It has a huge potential to be a great city, and I always bet on the underdog.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Great
  • City
  • Perspective

• Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

  

  Jeffery Deaver

• The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Actions

• No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Doing
  • New
  • New York

• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Writing

• I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

  

  Adriana Trigiani