Marjane Satrapi Quotes
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.
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We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
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What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
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I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
