Lynda Barry Quotes
I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
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I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
