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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.

Adriana Trigiani

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Adriana Trigiani
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
Author
Film Director
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Promise
Ladder
Love
Highest
Ladders
Stars
Follows
Woman
Promises
Dream
Tall
Believes
Hikes
Enough
Reach
Skirt
Believe
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If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
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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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I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
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I even love the smell of books.
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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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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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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
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All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.
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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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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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It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.
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There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
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I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.
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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 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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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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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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A practical girl never pines she takes action.
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I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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