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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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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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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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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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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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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