Lynda Barry Quotes
22 Lynda Barry quotes:
"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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"In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke."
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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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"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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"I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud."
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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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"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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"Love will make a way out of no way."
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"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking."
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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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"If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time."
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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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"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."
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"The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck."
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"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
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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 go to work the minute I open my eyes."
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"I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up."
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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 was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
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