Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeTruthTruth IsStoryYouNever

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

John Bolton

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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Joel Osteen

HappinessPowerDayAngerAngry

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

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I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Sting

FamilyWantSomethingComeLosers

If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and more. That wouldn't necessarily be good for Eddie, or anyone else in the band.

Stone Gossard

GoodMoreBandAlwaysComplexGet

I think colouring your hair is the best way to get a new look.

Disha Patani

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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Denis Waitley

DeterminationKeep GoingYouResolve

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Corey Haim

LearningHabitThoughtsMovingBook

I've had no problem harnessing anger.

Clint Eastwood

AngerProblemNo ProblemHad

I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.

Peggy Whitson

ThinkExploreJustMadeI Think

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Richard M. Nixon

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A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

Mark Wahlberg

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