Marjane Satrapi Quotes

• One can forgive but one should never forget.

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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.

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• There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don’t. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

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• The information I have about Iran is second hand.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I wasn’t made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: ‘Laws are for idiots.’ She was right.

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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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• All big changes of the world come from words.

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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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• The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

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• Image is an international language.

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Marjane Satrapi (13)

Birth:	22nd November, 1969
Nationality:	French, Iranian
Profession:	Author, Director, Novelist

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