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Anna Akana Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1989

Topics

Yourself Parents Growing Up Comedy

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

Good Food Pet Waiting Good Food You

My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.

Work Love Control Design More First

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

Live Best People Me Potential Goal

People keep saying EC3 is the heart and soul of TNA: that he's this homegrown star, and he is going to be this big star. But fans don't understand that I'm the true star - I came off Vince McMahon's TV.

Heart Soul People Saying Understand

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

Time People Me Society Looking Back

I can't stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I've ever played golf with.

Man Selfish Woods Stand Golf Tiger

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

End Doing Late Go Pants Out

Most of who's left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008.

Men New Now Yes Left Iowa

The ascot connotes informality. It is something one might wear at a cocktail party in one's own flat but is not something you wear out in public.

You Party Cocktail Out Own Wear

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

Life Work Beautiful Someone Real Us

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

People Mind Think Want Kind Why

I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

Election Want Two Years Democratic

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