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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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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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