Marjane Satrapi Quotes
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
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Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').
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The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.
