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"I am an artist in my own right, a singer, painter, and choreographer."

"So the Guèlèdè and the Bolodjo, we'll say that it's the very pillar of my career at the moment because at the beginning I learned to know my culture and now I started to sell it. I started to represent it more and more and each time you saw, when the Guèlèdè came out, you saw how everyone was in turmoil."

"can say that this is the sixth or seventh time I have seen Zeynab on stage and I still have the same emotion, I still have the same satisfaction, Zeynab has once again offered us a quality show today."

"The secret is to be confident enough to trust yourself all the time but also humble enough to work hard."

"To work hard costs absolutely nothing."

"I don't think anyone can perform at their best level if they are unhappy. This is not playing Football Manager on the computer. We are dealing with human beings."

"It’s not just about being a nice guy, we need to set the standards higher."

"I am a coach who likes to win despite things, not because of them."

"Pressure is a privilege."

"I am ready, born ready. Always."

"I'm quite strong and strict on discipline and fitness because it doesn't cost anything to be the fittest version of yourself."

"Whatever little decision you make has a consequence on the next."

"To be able to want to improve and constantly learn lessons takes a degree of humility. Still, the whole point of following whatever path in life we choose to is because we feel confident in doing that."

"Sometimes, a cup competition can hide the fact that you’re still struggling."

"Sometimes there are players who you have to praise and cajole but there are other players who need stick more than praise because they can get complacent and lose their concentration."

"Yeah, what a night. That’s probably the first night that these boys experienced what Man United is really about."

"There's maybe a one or two percent chance, but there is a chance. That's the thing."

"People can resist change at times, but change is important if you want to go forward."

"Football is about feeling good."

"I’m a people-person; I use the human capital around me."

"The margins between winning and losing in football are so close. It is better to be lucky than good sometimes."

"This whole project is about creating a culture. Sky's the limit."

"Everyone knows you need continuity and patience to get success, but not too many get it."

"I’d rather be an optimist and be wrong than be a pessimist and be right."

"I’m one of them who looks back at the lows more than the highs."

"To understand the people, you need to know the history."

"Rome wasn't built in a day, everything takes time."

"No tree grows in heaven."

"It's a fine balance between being humble and quietly confident, believing in yourself enough."

"My Father always told me; “why do you want to fit inside a glass slipper, when you can shatter the glass ceiling?”"

"At that time, she didn’t have much ambition for her acting career, because of the kind of roles she was offered. I noticed that, if given a lot of dialogue, she would become very nervous; then I cut most of her lines, so she could concentrate on her body language, which is something she was very good at."

"Yet “Maggie” (as her fans affectionately call her) stands out against western clichés about Chinese actresses. No Orientalist fantasy, she is a modern Hong Kong woman, a complex mirror image of post-colonial dilemmas: displacement, racist misrepresentation and partial loss of cultural identity (she speaks English better than she can read Chinese characters). Unlike such mainland stars as Gong Li and Siqin Gaowa, she has never formally trained as an actress and her acting depends more on emotion than technique."

"To be honest, I really think a lot of Hong Kong actors/actresses aren't interested in European movies."

"Well first of all, in Hong Kong, I think they're still interested in the action films and I think in some ways in action films we still do it better than the Americans. I think that's the first interest that people have still on Hong Kong movies and, you know, the world is smaller now and it's time to open your eyes to other things."

"I have done all kinds of scripts, but I prefer working on dramas. They give me room to really act. Comedies are fun to work on, but I don’t get much satisfaction from them."

"I have no regrets as an actress, even though I have been one for 15 years and don't think that all the films I've done are that good."

"I used to be an actress. After being away from film sets for 12 years, I no longer deserve to be called an actress!"

"We were in Los Angeles. And we could go anywhere. No one had any idea who I was."

"If a film does well, other people want to work with you."

"No matter where I'm going, I feel like I'm leaving something behind. Every time I get on a plane, I cry. The flight attendants on Cathay Pacific must think I'm mad."

"You experience a lot more pain than normal people—your mom dies, your dad dies, your boyfriend chucks you, you live in the street, and you're really going through these emotions. You're trying to know what it feels like to watch a man die in front of you, as if you've really lived it. Once that division is gone, it gets blurry—you look back at a shoot and think, was I really that sad because in the film my boyfriend didn't like me—or was it something else, something real?"

"I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty five and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it. But it didn't seem as though it was going anywhere because, you know, films without action or comedy are rare to find in Hong Kong, especially if the main character is a woman. But along the way, I've had a few good breaks."

"Well I don't think any two different people can be compared, because for me as you see on my list I've worked with so many different kinds of directors, that I never try to compare two people. I think they are individuals, and because of their upbringing and background they become the way they are and it also affects what they want to say in a movie, I think that's the interesting part, to see the differences in them."

"I mean for me, sometimes I can just picture things that I can't explain, and I think a snake just sort of wriggles along the way."

"I have nothing against commercial films, but if you’re in a movie, [and] you feel the script and everything else about it has no meaning – it’s just another production that the boss can add to his list – I don’t think you should do it."

"Comedies are written for men, and the women just stand around. But I do like the audience reaction to comedies. When they laugh, I feel good. You don’t get that sort of pleasure from making dramas."

"My first dream was to be a hairdresser, then a model."

"I’m very honest to my work, to myself and my audience. I never pretend I am something I am not. And when I play a part, I always give it as much as I can. That’s honesty too. I’m proud of being me."

"I like the idea of writing and directing something. That would be my goal in life. But that would not be in the near future. I would have to write and direct at the same time because I don't think anyone could give me a script that I would want to direct."

"Many people have the misconception that a pretty girl can only be a ‘vase’ in a film. I want people to consider me not just to be a film star, but someone who knows about acting."