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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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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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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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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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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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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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 look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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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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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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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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