Lynda Barry Quotes
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
