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America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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Life is too short to be lived badly.
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Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.
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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
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You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
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Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
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My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated everything for me is related.
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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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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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