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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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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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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.
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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 used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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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 wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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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 am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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 remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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