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" Love will make a way out of no way. "
Lynda Barry
Will
Make
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" The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead. "
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" I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. "
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" Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror. "
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" When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward. "
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" I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. "
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Thought
" I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back. "
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Alone
Back
Believe
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" When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?' "
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Need
Book
" Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. "
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Fool
Beautiful
" Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' "
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Barbie
You
Ready
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Know
Nothing
Feeling
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Think
Immune
I Think
" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "
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Afraid
Laughed
Loud
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Reading
Poetry
Looking
" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "
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Joke
Life
Things
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Color
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Dark
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Bucket
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