Nia Vardalos Quotes

When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, 'You can't go.' When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, 'Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.'

Nia Vardalos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 24, 1962

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CollegeMeWeekendYouBackSaid

When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

Jenny Zhang

GirlSchoolPeopleMeSometimesShe

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

Michael Bennet

OpportunityCollegeSocietyStudent

For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.

Amy Tan

HistoryIntelligenceWorldReading

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

FunnyNameFirstRightAlwaysIdea

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.

Ron Kind

TodayGovernmentNowDebtRight

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Ronald Reagan

MoneyGovernmentPeopleProblemMuch

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

LanguageBehaviorUnknownSystem

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Liz Phair

BestMatterProfanitySongsHow

I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.

Don Cornelius

OpportunityTalentBlackMissionSee

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

Deb Fischer

LeaderFightStand UpStandWillUp

As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Christopher Buckley

GoldWorldBuildingFinancialYou

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

Anne Tyler

EndWonderTryPointWhereAgain

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