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You'll never call him Fifi again.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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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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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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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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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
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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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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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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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