Marjane Satrapi Quotes
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Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
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'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
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I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.
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You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.
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I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
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If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.
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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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I'm not a religious person at all.
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In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.
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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.
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I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
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I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.
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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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My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
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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 hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.
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I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
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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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All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.
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My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.
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All big changes of the world come from words.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'