Antonia Eugenia Vardalos (Nia Vardalos) Quotes
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
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When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.
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I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
