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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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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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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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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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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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?
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My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.
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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.
