Marjane Satrapi Quotes
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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I've been drinking and using since I was 13.
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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
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I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other 'upcoming' authors’ books with mine.
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My first audition for The Magicians came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.
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'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
