Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

Marjane Satrapi

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• God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Feel

• Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Couple
  • Thing
  • Roles

• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Age
  • Know
  • Understand

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Trump

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Lie

• To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Self

• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Day
  • Gym
  • Worried

• All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Night
  • Judge
  • Garden

• Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

  

  Kate Moss
  • God
  • Jam
  • Oh

• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Change

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• 'I will not beg your forgiveness,' she said. Only her voice betrayed her fear; it was not its usual strong, clear tone. 'I did what I felt was right.''Of course you did,' I said. 'It was the wise thing to do.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • She
  • Strong
  • Fear

• Where's the coward that would not dareTo fight for such a land?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Coward

• Israeli and U.S. interests often run parallel, but they are not the same. Israel is concerned with a neighborhood. We are concerned with a world of 300 million Arabs and a billion Muslims. Our policies cannot be the same. If they are, we will end up with all of Israel’s enemies, who are legion, and only Israel’s friends, who are few.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Hero
  • Ego

• The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • School
  • Single
  • Sad

• I was a stage-struck kid.

  

  George Cukor

• Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Feelings
  • Jobs

• I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

  

  Marjane Satrapi