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.

Marjane Satrapi

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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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Space
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur

• 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.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Story
  • Now

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• 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.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Personal

• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Think
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Work
  • Best
  • Texas

• I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Practice
  • Better

• Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • First Lady
  • Limelight
  • Notoriety

• 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.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Great
  • Age
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Shine

• 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.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Intelligent

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Think
  • Know
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• The one thing women love more than money is power.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Women
  • Money
  • Love

• When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Style

• ...habits are happiness of a sort...

  

  Randall Jarrell

• What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Music
  • American
  • Soul

• It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.

  

  William Tucci
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Christmas

• Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Tennis
  • Hours
  • Weekend

• I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Country
  • Business
  • Small

• Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Marjane Satrapi