Kids Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

8 Kids quotes by Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi’s concise take on children blends her graphic storytelling sensibility into a few vivid lines. The eight quotes provide a thoughtful glimpse into youthful resilience.

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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 had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I…

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There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both…

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I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms,…

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Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the…

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I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life…

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I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet,…

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The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was…

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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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