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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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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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 live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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