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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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