Marjane Satrapi Quotes
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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I've been racketeered on.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.
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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
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This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
