Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeSayNeverChangesWriteOpen

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

Jeremy Clarkson

TruthBestRedStupidThinkingFat

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Melissa Gilbert

LifeFamilyLoveMotherHistory

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

Stephanie Szostak

SchoolHigh SchoolGolfYearHigh

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Stephen Hawking

WorldI CanOverCommunicateUsing

It's so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.

Sigrid

PeopleBondStrongerConnectionMeet

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

Trisha Yearwood

StartThinkTryingDeadRadioGet

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Tommy Bond

ManCoolThinkIntelligentHimLike

I've been in 30 car crashes, none of 'em my fault, I swear on a stack of midgets... OK, they were probably all my fault.

Roddy Piper

CarFaultBeenNoneOKSwear

'A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection.

Roma Downey

LifeFocusWillResurrectionDangers

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

Martin Yan

CookingChildCollegeChefDinner

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicChildrenGreatHappyYouPlay

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Joseph Conrad

PersonalityManActionArtistHe

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Marjane Satrapi