Marjane Satrapi Quotes
I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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You're unsure and you're not ready so that must mean I want you You're unavailable and disinterested and to you I look for comfort
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I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
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I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.
