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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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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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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All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
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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.
