Quotes By Lynda Barry
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
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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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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
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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 do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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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 grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
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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 live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
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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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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.
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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
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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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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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Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
Lynda Barry