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Lynn Johnston Biography

Lynn Johnston, CM OM (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist, known for her newspaper comic strip For Better or For Worse. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.

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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Age, Forward, Good, Happiness, Looks, Old

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

First Time, Firsts, Marriage, Self Confidence, Though, Tremendous

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

Achieved, Enemies, Enemy, Humble, Self, Success

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.

Away, Fall, Long, Person, Taken

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

Cameras, Hide, Life, Photography, Shy

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Inspirational, Profound, Said, Silence

Every time I "get with the program" somebody changes the channel.

Changes, Channel, Program, Somebody, Time

You have to be in love with your story. . . It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

Day, Light, Love, Love You, Stories, Time

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Asking, Ideas, Like, Runners, Running

I'm not just buying a car - I'm buying a lifestyle!

Buying, Buying A Car, Car, Lifestyle

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.

Doe, Everybody, Like, Paper, People, Times

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Lucky, Marriage, Tough, Wonderful

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created. . . what power that was!

Brother, Laughing, Making, People, Power

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

Children, Develop, Unique, Use, Wonderful

Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.

Chance, Help, Looks, People, Photography, Understand

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Die, Funny, Inspiring, Make, Money, Order

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.

Coffee, Community, Emphasis, Intellectually, Photographically, Photography

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.

Awake, Dream, Lazy, Lying, Morning, Move

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

Felt, Life Is, Part, Up To You, Writing, Written

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a. . . very brutal disciplinarian.

Attacking, Brutal, Children, Daughter, Mother, Say

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