Anna Akana Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Time keeps on slipping into the future.

Steve Miller

#3. 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

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

Anna Akana

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

Anna Kay Akana

#6. The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks ... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list ...

Tom Ridge

#7. Look at you and your big, bad self. Rawr." "You haven't see anything yet," I growled. "I'm giving you five seconds to back the hell off her. One. Four. Fi -

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

Robert Frank

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

Anna Akana

#10. In the boundless ocean of mind innumerable currents and tides shift with the shifting emotion of each several soul.

F.W.H. Myers

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.

Kate Zambreno

#14. If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Chael Sonnen

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

Anna Kay Akana

#16. Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.

Mara Liasson

#17. Then Park reached up and wrapped one of her red curls around his honey finger.
"Back to missing you," he said, letting it go.

Rainbow Rowell

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

Anna Kay Akana

#19. '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

#20. If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Brian Eno

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

Anna Kay Akana

#22. 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

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

Anna Kay Akana

#24. I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library ... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Drew Barrymore

#25. Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Henry IV

#26. I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

Anna Kay Akana

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

Anna Akana

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.

Virginie Despentes