Akana Quotes

#1. Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

Victor Borge

#2. Well, the priest did very well, considering. He got in all the details, and that is a good thing in a local item: you see, he had kept books for the undertaker-department of his church when he was younger, and there, you know, the money's in the details; the more details, the more swag:

Mark Twain

#3. I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.

Anna Akana

#4. I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

Anna Akana

#5. Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

Anna Akana

#6. Africa has no future.

V.S. Naipaul

#7. I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.

Anna Akana

#8. Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

Amanda Plummer

#9. Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure.

Anna Kay Akana

#10. Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.

Anna Kay Akana

#11. I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

Anna Akana

#12. They say that God doesn't give you more than you can handle.
Tell that to her.

Anna Kay Akana

#13. 'Loose Ends' was an all-female crew and one of the greatest on-set experiences I've ever had. We were ahead of schedule every day, and there was a laid-back, calm, supportive vibe that was entirely new to all of us.

Anna Akana

#14. All you have control ove is this moment. Chase it.

Anna Kay Akana

#15. Because she is my sister and I am her protector. And since I failed in that duty in life, I will satisfy it in death.

Anna Kay Akana

#16. And i chose life and love and happiness and pain...

Anna Kay Akana

#17. I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.

Anna Akana

#18. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Lew Wallace

#19. One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Anna Akana

#20. I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'

Anna Akana

#21. Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Karen Russell

#22. In her red dress and black boots, she stood straight and tall, blue eyes flashing with righteous fury, breasts rising and falling rapidly. Se had never looked more beautiful.

Trinity Faegen

#23. The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

H.L. Mencken

#24. All you have control over is this moment. Chase it.

Anna Kay Akana

#25. The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

Anna Akana

#26. My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

Anna Akana

#27. Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,
Pour moon beams into the dark night of my
thought,
That I may lead home the wanderer
And imbue the idle looker-on with restless
impatience;
And advance hotly on a new quest
And become known as the champion of a new
spirit

Muhammad Iqbal