Lynda Barry Quotes
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.
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I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.
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A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.
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If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.
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Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
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No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
