Lynda Barry Quotes
My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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I have these ideas that people go 'Oh, that's cool. I'd pay to see it, but I'm not gonna give you $25 million.'
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.
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My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable.
