American - Actress | September 5, 1940 -
I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.
Raquel Welch
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I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.
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My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.
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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
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I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.
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I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
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You can't fake listening. It shows.
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I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
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We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
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My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.
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When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
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I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.
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