Antonia Eugenia Vardalos (Nia Vardalos) Quotes
I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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I'm intrigued by traditional Indian designs. They are so beautifully handcrafted, and the designs are so intricate and beautiful. I really prefer the Indian designs.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
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The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' I wouldn't call any of them mainstream.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
