Lynda Barry Quotes
Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
-
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
-
I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
-
I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
-
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
-
I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
-
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
-
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
-
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
-
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
-
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
-
The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
-
Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
-
Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
-
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
-
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
-
You were born as the one you are.
-
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
-
Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
-
I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.
-
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
-
Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'
