"I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A."

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Nia Vardalos

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“In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.”
“For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?”
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.237, Vintage
“Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.”
“I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.”
“In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.”
“The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.”
“If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.”

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