Country Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi paints a small yet colorful picture of nationhood in nine lines. Her graphic‑novelist sensibility shows up in the way she frames culture, memory and the borders that shape us.

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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…

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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…

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In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what…

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My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or…

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I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter…

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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…

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I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on…

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For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved…

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If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The…

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I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what…

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With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of…

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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

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I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I…

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Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

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I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

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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…

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A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

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It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

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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…

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I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

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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…

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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

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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…

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When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind…

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