China Machado Quotes
I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.
