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People are so afraid to say the word comic. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to graphic novel and that disappears.

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
Actor
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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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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 almost don't know how to write an email.
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
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Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
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Imagine if I cannot stand someone and every day he is here in my face, then I cannot work. Then, the whole time, I am thinking I hate him, I hate him. But if I love him or I love her, then I can do anything, then I am comfortable. That's why it's so important to be surrounded by people that you really like.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
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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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I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.
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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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