Lynda Barry Quotes

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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• It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Me
  • Judging

• Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Crazy

• It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Strange
  • Beer

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Music
  • Universe
  • Everything

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Art
  • Control
  • Cooking

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

  

  Abba Eban
  • You
  • Way
  • Achieve

• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Health
  • Choices

• Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Everyone
  • Wicked
  • Scottish

• The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Touring

• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
  • Imagination
  • Challenge

• I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Part
  • Nervous
  • Auditioning

• I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Pain
  • Cancer
  • Say

• It's complimacated. (sounds like compli-ma-kayted, emphasis on first syllable) 16

  

  Ze Frank

• If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Strong

• Pretty much every show that comes on, I'll try to watch at least one episode of it. For me, there are three different levels. I watch the first episode, and if I love it, I'm lockin' it in for the rest of the season. If I'm not too sure about it, I will maybe tune in the next week. It it's just terrible, then I'm done.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

  

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • Mask
  • Transform
  • Costume

• Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

  

  Rick Fox
  • Read
  • Another
  • Takes

• 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