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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?
Adriana Trigiani
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Adriana Trigiani
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
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Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.
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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
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I even love the smell of books.
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If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
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I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores
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Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
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Motherhood changes everything.
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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
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The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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