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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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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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.
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A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
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The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
