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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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University Teacher
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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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 need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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 wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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