Marjane Satrapi Quotes
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
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Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
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The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
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The one thing women love more than money is power.
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When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
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...habits are happiness of a sort...
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I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.
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I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.
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Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
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For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
