Marjane Satrapi Quotes

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

Robert Lopez

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For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.

John Romaniello

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Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

Steve Jurvetson

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People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

Michael Lehmann

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I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Milla Jovovich

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I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

Loni Love

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It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.

Josh Ryan Evans

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Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Diane Ackerman

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I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

Bob Costas

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I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

William T. Wiley

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Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.

Scott Weiss

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Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.

Rip Taylor

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