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I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#i #like #make #run #seem

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. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#always #back #behind #cartoonist #cartoons

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#decent #feel #head #i #i can

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. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#before #cartoonist #cartoons #draw #friend

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#college #go #holding #i #may

I always felt I needed to teach to survive. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#felt #i #i always #needed #survive

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. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#distract #enjoy #horror #horror movie #me

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#guided #i #i do #out #question

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. ↗

— Rick Barry

#any #based #because #form #hearsay

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends. ↗

— Rick Barry

#bought #buy #coach #friends #gotten