Lynda Barry Quotes
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all.
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In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.