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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
Adriana Trigiani
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Adriana Trigiani
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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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My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
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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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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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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 used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
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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 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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