Yaya Han Quotes

#1. Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.

Ronald Reagan

#2. It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

Yaya Han

#3. Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

Yaya Han

#4. I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

Yaya Han

#5. Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

Seraphim Of Sarov

#6. Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

Yaya Han

#7. Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.

Miyamoto Musashi

#8. She called my name.
She called me Mark.
I love it when someone uses my name at unexpected times. I don't know why. But, I just love it.

A.A. Gupte

#9. Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Betty Williams

#10. It's there, even if you never see it till the end - that spark of individuality, of freedom.

Pierce Brown

#11. He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.

Tayari Jones

#12. You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me - most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

John C. Maxwell

#13. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Rick Danko

#14. So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

Yaya Han

#15. It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.

Brian K. Vaughan

#16. For me, I've such a steady presence throughout the community that I think if anyone can raise up to the challenge of presenting the face of cosplay, it could be me. Not to be vain, but I've had the training to be in this position.

Yaya Han

#17. Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.

Yaya Han

#18. Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

DeVon Franklin

#19. The borrower runs in his own debt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. The content that Jessica Nigri puts out, really displays cosplay in the wrong light.

Yaya Han

#21. I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

Yaya Han

#22. I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

Yaya Han

#23. Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

Yaya Han