Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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I can never wink at the audience.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. 'When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!'
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Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
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How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
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It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.
