Anna Akana Quotes
I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I'm often asked what it takes to be 'Series A ready' in terms of metrics, progress, and traction. Unfortunately, there's no easy answer.
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One thing I learned from all my years in business is you really have to work with the experts: you can launch something yourself, but unless you have the expertise and the marketing strategies and machinery behind you, you'll never be successful.
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People ask me about staying here. I think they assume that I wouldn't want to come back to a place like Mississippi, which is so backward and which frustrates me a lot. The responsibility that I feel to tell these stories about the people and the place that I'm from is what pulls me back.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'
