Lynda Barry Quotes

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

Lynda Barry

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• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Rid

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Together
  • Space

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Trying
  • War
  • Party

• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Process

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Music
  • Book
  • Piano

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Stop

• Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Healthy
  • Depressing
  • Bubbling

• Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Truth
  • Change
  • Moving

• Of course, there is drawing in art as there is style in literature. Style that is mannered, that strains after effect, is bad. No style is good except that which effaces itself in order to concentrate all the attention of the reader upon the subject treated, upon the emotion rendered.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Science
  • Faith

• 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Work
  • Fire

• For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Real
  • Book
  • Simple