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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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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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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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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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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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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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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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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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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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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 live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go I need to write a book. What's a good question? It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.
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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.
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