"It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for years, and I must continue my writing and filmmaking. The most important thing for an artist or an author is to continue her work. Languages and settings are the tools but not the first thing."

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Xiaolu Guo

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.”
“Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not Godâ€™s masterpiece?”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.”
“I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.”
“I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?”
“The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.”

Source : Broadcast on Radio Bremen, August 2, 1940.
“I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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