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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
Life
Creative
My Life
Live
Believe
Way
Tell
Given
Purpose
Put
Ultimately
Stories
Meaning
Much
Here
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
Me
Creative
Book
Wait
Digital
Control
Complete
Given
Make
Audition
Being
Want
Creative Control
Platform
Filmmaker
The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.
Anna Akana
Me
You
Quality
Result
Discipline
Videos
Focus
Become
Films
Enough
Else
Projects
Web
Direct
More
Over
Deadlines
Quantity
Always
Were
Been
Ambitious
Wonder
Going
Short
Short Films
After
Sketches
Create
Your
Series
Keeps
Start
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.
Anthony Jeselnik
People
Joke
Demanding
Twitter
Would
Someone
Point
Write
Tragedy
Die
Then
Certain
Certain Point
Tweet
Thing
Started
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
Anthony Jeselnik
Problems
Everything
Having
Driving
Driving Force
Liking
Force
Doing
Been
Years
Authority
Behind
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.
Anthony Jeselnik
Time
Class
Brilliant
Trouble
Joke
Down
Say
Would
Bored
Some
Had
Head
Almost
Like
Get
Grade
Just
Pop
Novel
Second
Interrupt
I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
Anthony Jeselnik
Joke
Topics
Fodder
Guy
More
Voice
Tension
Offensive
Reason
Using
Raise
I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.
Anthony Jeselnik
Time
You
People
Smart
Try
Young
Everything
Way
Say
See
People Say
About
Takes
Sticks
Comics
Lot
Time People
Very
Offensive
Trying
Just
Should
Ridiculous
Things
We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge audience, and we started there - but then you're at the mercy of their algorithms a lot, too. They can change anything, and it's really up to them, and you can't say anything about it.
Anthony Padilla
You
Change
Mercy
YouTube
Awesome
Too
Say
Evolve
About
Because
Audience
Lot
Huge
Up
Huge Audience
Trying
Anything
Them
Then
Really
Away
Started
If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.
Anthony Padilla
People
Videos
Thinking
Minutes
About
New
Like
Make
After
Really
Start
We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.
Anthony Padilla
People
Pilot
Internet
Seen
Other
Back
Months
TV
Bad
About
Take
Come
Make
Because
Go
Off
Forgotten
Them
Viewers
Two
You basically do have a TV show when you're making stuff online. You have an audience that you make stuff for regularly.
Anthony Padilla
You
TV
TV Show
Online
Stuff
Make
Audience
Making
Regularly
Show
Basically
Every brand has something on the Internet, whether it's video or doing something on social media. It's just another form that brands are starting to realize they have to be a part of.
Anthony Padilla
Social Media
Internet
Every
Something
Part
Another
Doing
Brand
Brands
Just
Form
Whether
Social
Video
Realize
Media
Starting
I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
Arabella Weir
School
Kids
London
Primary
North
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir
People
Coffee
Parents
Important
Books
Drank
Pleasure
Kids
Out
Degrees
Both
Winners
Had
Spoke
Like
Read
Foreign
Real
Foreign Languages
Were
Overweight
Oxford
Children
Cut
Languages
Who
Fat
Museums
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
Arabella Weir
Mistakes
Slept
About
Write
Most
Because
Greatest
Them
Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.
Arabella Weir
Beautiful
Incredibly
Macbeth
Has-Been
Both
Tourists
Sadly
Because
Isle
Been
Discovered
Scotland
Where
Shot
I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
Arabella Weir
Life
Myself
You
People
My Life
Control
Other
Way
Ghastly
Out
Could
Tour
Never
Remind
Done
Which
Package
Turn
Then
Appeals
Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
Arabella Weir
Education
Good
Class
Everybody
State
Say
Kids
Promote
Know
Look
Just
Irrespective
Want
Race
Standards
Why
Right
Raise
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
Arabella Weir
Class
Only
Feature
Well
Priority
Doing
Goal
Very
List
Going
Low
Your
Popularity
Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
Arabella Weir
You
Lose
Extremely
More
Only
Weight
Likely
Makes
Go
Any
Diet
Dieting
Regain
Gain
Even
Ever
Fat
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
Arabella Weir
Me
Welcome
Made
Clear
Up
Person
Expected
Growing
Growing Up
Thin
Fat
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella Weir
Girl
Society
Else
Table
More
More Than Anything
She
Than
Prizes
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Might
Thin
Bring
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
Arabella Weir
Life
Time
School
First
Terrifying
First Time
Off
Child
Sending
Your
Your Child
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
Arabella Weir
Life
Me
Son
Old
Crime
He
Headed
Over
Like
Looks
Call
Very
Anxious
Much
Mum
I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.
Arabella Weir
Husband
Understand
Boy
Just
Ask
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