Marjane Satrapi quotes - page 3

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)
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. View quote
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Image is an international language. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried. View quote
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I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised. View quote
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If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think. View quote
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I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. (Marjane Satrapi)
I'm not a religious person at all. View quote
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This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something. View quote
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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. View quote
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To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films. View quote
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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. View quote
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You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale. View quote
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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist. (Marjane Satrapi)
The information I have about Iran is second hand. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think. View quote
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