Ian Gomez Quotes
I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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New York is a fantastic city.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.
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I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
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Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This seems obvious, but it's not. And she's taken on a wide range of subject matter: each book poses new challenges, and that's something I think about when I'm embarking on a project.
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I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.
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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
