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Marjane Satrapi
Iranian
November 22, 1969
Artist
I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
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A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
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I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
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This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
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I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
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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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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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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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Best
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The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.
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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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I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.
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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
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If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.
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Chance
You
My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
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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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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
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I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.
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