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Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Childhood Tears Loved Go Normal

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going into rehearsals. The thing, as I look back on it now, that I was most attracted to, was that I felt like I'd found my family. It was just a bunch of loonies.

John Cho

Family College Loved Look Acting

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

John Lautner

Good Beautiful Time Childhood Half

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

Johnny Ball

Quality Government Lost Credibility

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

Spike Jonze

Work Failure Good Thought Okay Well

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Tom Brokaw

Humility Me More Club Cancer Would

Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

Miguel Cabrera

People Game You Play Go Say

You come home when the war is won.

Michael T. Flynn

Home War You Come Won

I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone always needs to talk to you. There are always decisions to be made and every day for as long as the movie goes on. So it's a marathon... You don't have to look nice, but it's all day every day.

Michael Urie

Day Decisions Someone Doing Look

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Michael Korda

Know Why Will Way Turn Out

No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.

Mitch McConnell

Law Constitution Someone Say Matter

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Mitski

People Me Think Pressure Play More

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.

Jason Mitchell

Crazy I Can Stuff Very