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I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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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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People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.
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Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema it's not literature it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.
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With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a Third-World story.
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I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
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One can forgive but one should never forget.
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If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
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For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
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It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
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A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.
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George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.
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