Persepolis Quote by M.J. Rose Download Open image ““and the onion-shaped minarets of Persepolis in the distance.”” — M.J. Rose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Minarets Minarets Persepolis Persepolis Persepolis Distance Shaped Minarets
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“[The beautiful pass of Leny, near Callander, in Monteith, would, in some respects, answer this description.]” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
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“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps.… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
“But it's been a wonderful change. I've found myself. I am stronger than I have ever been. I am painting, and I'm good at… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
“Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher” — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Perfume is magic. It’s mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it.… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter [in which… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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