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I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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'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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The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal they have different styles.
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You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
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I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.
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I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
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One can forgive but one should never forget.
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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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We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
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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 call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.
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Image is an international language.
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If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
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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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Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
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Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
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Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol making love, they talk about Aids you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
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But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.
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