"It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end."

“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”

“At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

“When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2011). “The Woman He Loved Before”, p.308, Hachette UK

“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.”

“Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.”

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.”

“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”