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" My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?' "

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" I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. "

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" For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky. "

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" What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream. "

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" The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. "

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" I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean. "

" Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that. "

" Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. "

Alistair Darling

" I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management. "

" I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better. "

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" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "

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" I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable. "

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