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. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don’t want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
It’s true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
My culture comes from everywhere. I’m sick of this notion of nationality, that if you’re brought up in the same city or same country you’re the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. Marjane Satrapi Read Quote
