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Lynda Barry Quotes
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Type: Cartoonist Quotes Category: American Cartoonist Quotes Date of Birth: January 2, 1956 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Lynda Barry Related Authors: Walt Disney Bill Watterson Matt Groening Len Wein Joseph Barbera Bill Griffith Alison Bechdel Ted Rall |
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.
Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. Lynda Barry I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry I go to work the minute I open my eyes. Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. Lynda Barry 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? Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. Lynda Barry In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. Lynda Barry Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry Love will make a way out of no way. Lynda Barry People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. Lynda Barry Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. Lynda Barry Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? Lynda Barry The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. Lynda Barry 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. Lynda Barry |
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