Adriana Trigiani Quotes

There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'

Adriana Trigiani

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ChildrenParentsMePrisonHometown

The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.

Joe R. Lansdale

ThinkYouLivingBubbleNeverKlan

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

Anish Kapoor

LifeDayAestheticLuxuryEvery Day

The real cost is always more than just the money you shell out.

Jeff Nichols

MoneyYouMoreRealOutCost

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Jeff Sessions

IntelligenceBelieveImportantOur

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

Michael Bolton

DreamYearsListProjectsKept

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

John Phillips

FamilyHomeGreatTimeAdventureGo

I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.

Ruth Rendell

PeopleThinkCarePaidLikeHappens

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.

Matisyahu

FaithWritingYearCareerKindWay

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

Don Larsen

GameThinkRememberWeekSometimes

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

Paul Tsongas

WomenCommitmentEqualityStrong

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.

Sheila Heti

PeopleMeWritingKnowMindsLine

I've never seen the first three 'Star Wars' movies. It's just not really my genre.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

ThreeMoviesNeverFirstStarSeen

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