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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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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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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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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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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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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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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Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
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One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.
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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.
