"In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence"

-- Bei Dao

#Silence Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.”
“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
“Comedy is king. It has to be.”
“Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.”
“I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.”
“So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.”
“Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul”
“Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.”

Source : Pam Allyn (2011). “Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age”, p.47, Penguin

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