Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.

Jenna McCarthy

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College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

Jennie Finch

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When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

Jeffrey Tambor

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I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

Andy Mineo

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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Shirley Manson

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When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.

Rose McIver

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I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

Roy Horn

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The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

Mohnish Pabrai

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Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

Jason Behr

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Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Debbie Ford

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I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Deborah Harkness

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