Anna Akana Quotes

When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

Anna Akana

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But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

Johannes Rau

EducationMusicPeopleSocietyYoung

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

Jeffrey Pierce

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I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

John Updike

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If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

Travis Kalanick

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He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.

Robbie Coltrane

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I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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I don't like competition in relationships.

Molly Sims

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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Davy Crockett

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My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

Chris Bohjalian

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I want to change a lot.

Courteney Cox

ChangeWantLot

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

Alice Englert

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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Alison Jackson

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