Lynn Johnston Quotes - Page 2

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• Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

  Lynn Johnston

  Couple, Church, Enlightened

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.

  Lynn Johnston

  Christmas, Memories, Magic

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• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspiring, Mom, Stay Strong

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

  Lynn Johnston

  People, Doe, Paper

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

  Lynn Johnston

  Self Confidence, Firsts, First Time

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

  Lynn Johnston

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.

  Lynn Johnston

  Heart, College, World

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16, 2012.

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• But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

  Lynn Johnston

  Guy, Married, Miserable

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

  Lynn Johnston

  Mother, Vocabulary, Educated

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.

  Lynn Johnston

  Photography, Coffee, Community

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• Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

  Lynn Johnston

  Fall, Taken, Long

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• But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

  Lynn Johnston

  Mother, Children, Home

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

  Lynn Johnston

  Crazy, Parent, Sound

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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