Marjane Satrapi Quotes
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.
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I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
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I’ve been walking my mind to an easy time,My back turned towards the sun.Lord knows the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line,To talk about things to come.Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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My quiet place is in the gym. When I feel like going to church, it's for me the MSG training facility and working on my game.
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When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
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Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
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I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.
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Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.
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In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'
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We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
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As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
