Lynda Barry Quotes
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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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.
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Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.
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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.
