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Lynda Barry
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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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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.
Lynda Barry
You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
Lynda Barry
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
Lynda Barry
I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
Lynda Barry
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.
Lynda Barry
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
Lynda Barry
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
Lynda Barry
There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
Lynda Barry
But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
Lynda Barry
I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
Lynda Barry