Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GovernmentPeopleMeDemocracyFace

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

Jennifer Egan

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I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Sophie Hannah

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My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child.

Solange Knowles

ChildDestinySoundDefinitely

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.

Roisin Murphy

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That's my goal: to get the world to know who Romeo Santos is. His music. My music. Even if they don't like it, I want them to know who I am.

Romeo Santos

MusicI AmWorldGoalKnowWant

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Mason Cooley

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I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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Security has come from being successful.

Minnie Driver

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There's nothing like having somebody that loves every single bit of you, and that you love the same way, to actually, really share it with.

Brantley Gilbert

LoveYouNothingWaySameSingle

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

Brian Wilson

Beatles

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

William Least Heat-Moon

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I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

Shari Arison

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