Marjane Satrapi Quotes

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveYouCinemaDictatorshipLiving

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Jim DeMint

HopeTimeProblemsBecomeScared

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

Jeremy Northam

MemoriesViewDramaHiddenAncient

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

John Gourley

WorkGreatPerformancePrideUnique

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

Ann Coulter

ThinkI ThinkReasonablePerfectly

I cook often when I am at home but not in college. I do it alone. It is just very relaxing to me. Just about anything that I like to eat, I can cook - chicken, salmon, stir fry. I like to cook seafood or burgers the most when I am entertaining.

Simone Manuel

HomeAloneI AmCollegeMeI Can

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

River Phoenix

LieI AmNameSometimesPersonal

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.

Mike Wallace

ReadingHellNewsReporterRead

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

OthersWhoBoastOweThoseBrag

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

Liza Minnelli

WorkBestWorldFeelPossibilities

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Clive Barker

MomentChaosControlBelieveHorror

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

Bryant Gumbel

TimeBabyMomLongLong TimeBoy

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

Arianna Huffington

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