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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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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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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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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'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'll never call him Fifi again.
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