Antonia Eugenia Vardalos (Nia Vardalos) Quotes

We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.

Antonia Eugenia Vardalos

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • May

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• I'd love to make a thriller.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Make
  • Thriller

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Explore

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• Wild flowers grow where they will.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Grow
  • Flowers
  • WIld

• I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Nice

• For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Death
  • Come
  • Grandfather

• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • American
  • Support
  • Health

• If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Body
  • Baseball

• I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May
  • Purpose

• Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Book
  • Value

• We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.

  

  William Cowper Prime
  • Memories
  • Intuition
  • Fishing

• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Gay

• We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.

  

  Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
  • Parents
  • Mistakes
  • Expectations