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All big changes of the world come from words.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. I always say to people, You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them. Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, mama, mama, papa, papa.
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I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.
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A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
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If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.
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I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
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'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel I just say what I think.
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Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
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I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
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In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
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The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
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I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.
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You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
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A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me' this is something to condemn.
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