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A practical girl never pines she takes action.

Adriana Trigiani

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Adriana Trigiani
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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Film Director
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Girl
Action
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Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.
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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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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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For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.
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This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.
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All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
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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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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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Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
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Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
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Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
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A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.
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The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
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This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
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Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.
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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
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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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Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.
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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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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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