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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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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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Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.
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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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I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.
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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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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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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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I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
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You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
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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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I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
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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.
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I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.
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