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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.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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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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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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Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
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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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With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.
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Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!
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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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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
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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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Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
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If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.
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Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.
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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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That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.
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I'm not a religious person at all.
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The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.
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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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