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This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

Adriana Trigiani

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Adriana Trigiani
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
Author
Film Director
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Times
Feelings
Cannot
Explaining
Measure
Feeling
Actually

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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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But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
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Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
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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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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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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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Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
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I even love the smell of books.
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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 where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
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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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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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It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.
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When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
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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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If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.
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That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.
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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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