Cecilia Malmstrom Quotes
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
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I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
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Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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Sultan Aladdin… had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry… their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.
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A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.
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The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'
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The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.
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My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.
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I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
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It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.
