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Lynda Barry
Age: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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 used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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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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