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Lynda Barry

"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."

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"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."

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Aberjhani

"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

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Aberjhani

"I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you."

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Aberjhani

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."

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Aberjhani

"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."

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Aberjhani

"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."

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Aberjhani

"Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing."

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Aberjhani

"When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind."

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Aberjhani

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

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Aberjhani

"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"

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Aberjhani

"Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK."

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Lynda Barry
"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."

Class

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Lynda Barry
"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Love

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Lynda Barry
"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."

Time

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Lynda Barry
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."

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Lynda Barry
"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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Lynda Barry
"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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Lynda Barry
"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."

Being

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Lynda Barry
"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."

Friendship

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Lynda Barry
"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word."

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Lynda Barry
"I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?"

Work

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