Marjane Satrapi Quotes
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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The painter
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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
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I definitely take it as a really big responsibility on my shoulders to make sure I'm motivating my generation and the people around me and, hopefully, inspire people to try something new.
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You breathe fast when you're scared.
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People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
