Marjane Satrapi Quotes
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
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If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.
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Nick Cardy's work helped define some of the things we see in comics today and take for granted. He broke out of the mold in terms of covers and layout and created a truly interactive experience for the reader that directly points back to his time with the Eisner studio.
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We hope the 'real' person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.
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I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
