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Lynda Barry Quotes

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 2, 1956

Topics

Work Fear Live Control Dark Fired

My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

Family Father Mother Courage Fight

I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.

News Always Take Sense Off Notice

It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'

Love Passion Keep Going I Am Singing

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Andrei Sakharov

Research Physics Group Task Whose

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

Loyalty Become International Primary

Two people making a beat is really like one person making a beat. But you have another person's brain. So what might sound good to you, they could flip it a different way. It's really a collaborative effort, really.

Good Effort People Brain You Person

I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I'm usually playing well.

Struggle I Can Driver Playing Well

I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like 'Vampire Diaries' and 'Pretty Little Liars,' which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

People Me Think Reality Seeing Kid

I think it's hilarious if people say that my body looks masculine.

People Think Body Looks Say I Think

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Positive I Am Forward Think Person

People feel really uncomfortable when there's silence.

Silence People Feel Uncomfortable

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

I Am Mind American Feel America Up

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