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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: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
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University Teacher
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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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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These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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 remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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