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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
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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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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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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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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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