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Lynda Barry
Age: 69
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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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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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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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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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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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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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 wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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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 look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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