American - Cartoonist | January 2, 1956 -
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
Lynda Barry
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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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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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 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.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
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