Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: November 22, 1969

Topics

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For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

John Hawkes

LifeChangeGoodCharacterPeople

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

John Ortberg

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Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

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It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

Devon Aoki

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I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Chili Davis

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I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.

Clarence Thomas

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I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Brendon Burchard

SmartPeopleBelieveLearnMentors

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

Suze Orman

LiveMoneyThinkYouWantKind

I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.

Pearl Cleage

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I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

Scott Aukerman

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Good people cannot fully compensate for bad process, but they can mitigate some of its worst tendencies.

Richard N. Haass

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