Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.
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To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.
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Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
