Lynda Barry Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Long after the fact, it occurred to me that this was a metaphor for life- blisters come before calluses, vulnerability before maturity- but not even the thickest of skins could have spared us the lash of Daddy's tongue.
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I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
