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China Machado [0-0] Chinese
Rank: 102
Model, Fashion Model


China Machado is a former fashion model, an editor and television producer. She is the first non-white person to appear on the cover of a major American fashion magazine, in the February 1959 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

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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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I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
102
If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side. Strength
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I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.
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I have no nationality, no country.
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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 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 wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.
108
You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.
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I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.
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A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.
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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'm practical. I see something, and I do it.
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No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.
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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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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.
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When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better.
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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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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 do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.
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I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.
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