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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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
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I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
