Adriana Trigiani Quotes
I care about the box office, so that's why I go from town to town: because I want people to see it. I would give it for free; I just want those houses full of people watching it.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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I have very bad posture.
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I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'
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I care about the box office, so that's why I go from town to town: because I want people to see it. I would give it for free; I just want those houses full of people watching it.
