"Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity."

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Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.154, Laurel Leaf

Adeline Yen Mah

#Opportunity Quotes #Mind Quotes #Danger Quotes

“The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.”
“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.”

Source : John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.86, Mandeville Press
“When I look in the mirror, what do I see? I see a strong, independent, working woman who is very much in love and very happy with the reflection in that mirror.”
“I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.”
“Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?”
“Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.”
“[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.”
“The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.”

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