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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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 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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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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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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.
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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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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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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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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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