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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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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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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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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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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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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 remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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