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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As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I overthink everything.
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People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
