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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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