Marjane Satrapi Quotes

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

Jim Dale

LoveLiveYourselfVillainYouPlay

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

Jennifer Coolidge

YouPlease EveryoneTryEveryoneUp

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Michael Hastings

LightDayFunMediaDoubtPersonal

Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.

Sia

GoodJobMeSongSuitsWill

Even when I was young, I had a reputation for it. I would play with my friends outside, and I was doing all the things you see now a long time ago. I've always done the flip-flap, even when I was young. Stepovers, dummies - I love to dribble. If you speak with my friends, they will say I'm the same Riyad.

Riyad Mahrez

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My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

Julia Sawalha

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Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

Phil Daniels

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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Peter Sellers

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There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

Peter Diamandis

WorkTechnologyTimeFoodJobEnjoy

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

GovernmentLostWillMoreInside

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

Kent Haruf

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Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

Kriti Kharbanda

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