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 -
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 -
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 -
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
Dani Shapiro -
I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
Imelda May -
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
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I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
Zooey Deschanel -
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
Valerie Trierweiler -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Irina Shayk -
The one thing women love more than money is power.
D. L. Hughley -
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 -
Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.
Larry Niven -
A white person is free to think whatever they want to think, but a black person has to think a certain way. Why do you think I get in so much controversy? People have a model of what they think a black person should think.
Clarence Thomas -
'I never believed in God before.' - that I understand. But not: 'I never really believed in Him before.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!
Elizabeth Gaskell -
I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
Kate O'Mara -
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.
Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds -
Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
Brian Tracy -
I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.
Sheryl Swoopes -
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