Marjane Satrapi Quotes
If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.
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Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.
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Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.
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Not having a private life is hard.
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If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
