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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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You'll never call him Fifi 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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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 listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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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 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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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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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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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