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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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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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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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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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.
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Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I've wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.
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My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
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I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing I do when I'm done, no matter if it's 4 in the morning... I literally just pick up my phone and I call someone.
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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.'
