China Machado quotes
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“I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.”
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“I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.”
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“I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.”
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“I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.”
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“I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.”
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“When people ask me about modeling, what it was like, I say, "It was fabulous!" If you can use it in the right way - to travel to meet other people, to learn how to dress, to make some money - I think it's great. But I also think it takes girls. If they don't know how to handle themselves, or if they do it just for a little time and are not successful, then they get terribly depressed about themselves.”
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“I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.”
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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.”
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“Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.”
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“No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.”
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“Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.”
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“I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.”
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“I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.”
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“I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.”
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“A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.”
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