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" Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. "
Lynda Barry
Very
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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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" People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. "
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" 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 not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. "
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" Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. "
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" It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. "
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" If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. "
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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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" 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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" I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! "
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" I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. "
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" Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. "
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" I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. "
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Much
Trouble
" When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason. "
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" If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. "
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" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "
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" My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. "
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" For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. "
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" The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. "
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" It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder. "
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" There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work. "
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" We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. "
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" Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? "
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" I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. "
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" 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. "
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" When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!' "
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