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 felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
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There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
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College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
