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 you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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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'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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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 wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
