Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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I get very attached to places.
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'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel.
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Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.
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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.
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We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.
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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
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I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.
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Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.
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I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family.
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The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'
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We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then, just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
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I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
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I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.
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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.
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I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
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I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories to the hungry public. We have more avenues to do it than ever before.
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I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.
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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. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
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Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my cave to go on tour, I really listen to my readers.
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The Calandra Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, the library at Lincoln Center, and the Fashion Institute of Technology were helpful and key to piecing together what life must have been like at the turn of the last century.
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.