Annalaura Brown Quotes & Sayings

As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice." — Storm Saulter

Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head. — Peter Thiel

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat. — Rick Warren

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise. — Preet Bharara

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad. — Steve Alford

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. — Albert Camus

Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way. — Marianne Williamson

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts. — John Newton

writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window. — Helen Macdonald

Sophie's mother's voice trilled from the hallway, "William and Sophie Claire, won't you please come join us in the drawing room?" "You have a drawing room?" Will asked. "She's probably been rereading Jane Austen and decided to rename the living room. — Lauren Layne

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea. — Dana Gould

So this was love then - wanting to give only pleasure to the beloved; constantly searching your mind for love tokens that would bring a smile to her lips or a sparkle to her eyes. He deeply regretted it had come so late in life, but since his heart's desire was Eleanor who was so much younger than he, it could have been no other way. He was grateful it had come at all. — Virginia Henley