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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
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If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.
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Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.
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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.
