Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CulturePeopleThinkShortYouBad

My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

Andy Biersack

LifeLovedMercyRockWholeLike

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

Andrew Garfield

MeThinkAmericanAmericaBornLand

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Meg Cabot

GoodWordsWritingChanceEndYou

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

Melanie Klein

ChildrenChildInterestingFind

The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally couldn't do it because of my schedule. But listening to James Cameron talk about 'Avatar' was so fascinating. Because he literally invented the world in his mind - and it literally existed.

Matt Damon

MindListeningWorldDoneSchedule

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

Joshua Harris

FailureGreatWalkJobPeopleYou

I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.

Deepika Padukone

LoveBirdMoviesSuperheroCartoons

I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'

David Slade

ThoughtFirstVampireWhoEver

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

Brittany Snow

MeMatterEverythingPrettyThings

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

Ryan Coogler

CharacterYourselfFeelYouFlaws

I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.

Richard Dean Anderson

GreatWaterJobAmericaYearsChief

If you break your finger, that's on you, right? But if you get a chronic illness, if you get a serious illness or life-threatening illness, that's something I think we should all share the cost in because we all face the same unknowns and the same risks.

Mark Cuban

RisksFaceThinkYouSeriousRight

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