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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 [in which sally field plays an american who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in iran]; i heard so many things like that. i did not make persepolis for iranians. it was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "let me give you another point of view."
-Marjane Satrapi
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I'd Heard So Many Stupidities About My

Marjane Satrapi
I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since i left iran. people had watched this stupid movie not without my daughter [in which sally field plays an american who rescues her daughter from her estranged in-laws in iran]; i heard so many things like that. i did not make persepolis for iranians. it was my answer to the rest of the world, to say, "let me give you another point of view."
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