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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.
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When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go I need to write a book. What's a good question? It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.
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This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
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When an attractive but ALOOF (cool) man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.
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A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
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