China Machado Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
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Nothing else so inspires and heartens people as words of appreciation. You and I may soon forger the words of encouragement and appreciation that we utter now, but the person to whom we have spoken them may treasure them and repeat them to themselves over a lifetime
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The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.
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No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.
