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You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Nia Vardalos

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Nia Vardalos
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 24
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Winnipeg
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Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
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If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.
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I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
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In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
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I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.
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You're never too fat for a new purse.
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I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first draft will come out at 200 pages. I think and think and I go, um this story is about the brother that appears on page 178. I go back and I rewrite.
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Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.
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Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.
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My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
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What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
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Sometimes I'm surprised when someone who has achieved success is incredibly Machiavellian in their manipulations. So, while I want to believe it's integrity, that might just show how naïve I am. I sometimes worry that I might not be shrewd enough to maneuver myself through the Hollywood system.
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I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.
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We live in an unsafe world.
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And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
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On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
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Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.
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