Anna Biller Quotes

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

Anna Biller

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• Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Audience

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Never
  • Humble

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Sun

• It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Why
  • Control
  • Worry

• I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Path

• It is not easy to dress well.

  

  Jil Sander

• Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Life
  • Pain

• This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Reflection

• The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Interesting

• I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • Work
  • Rock

• Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

  

  Phil Lord
  • People
  • Age
  • Smart

• I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

  

  Elena Vesnina
  • Life
  • Great
  • Remember

• Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Children
  • American
  • America

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

  

  Alan Furst
  • People
  • Value
  • Emotional

• I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

  

  Anna Biller
  • Beautiful
  • Cinema
  • Transform