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You're more than a story.
Craig Thompson / Novelist
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Even a mistake is better than nothing.
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Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?
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Lust
Temptation
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I love the sea because it is boundless.
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Boundless
Sea
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I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.
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Arabic
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The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.
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Your Body
Body Your Your Body
Psyche
Reflected
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For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?
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Soul
What Matters
World
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Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
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Easier
Shame
Share
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Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
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I'm Sad
Wanting Someone
Wanting You
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I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.
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Desires
Overlap
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In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.
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Agent
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I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
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Novel
Rice
Animals
Twist
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Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
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Awful
Church
School
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I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
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Cereal
Grateful
Infatuation
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Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.
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Christianity
Islam
Lifestyle
Shaped
Morals
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How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
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Maps
Matter
Movement
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At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
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Fall
Lying
Stars
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I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
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Heaven
Misery
World
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Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
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Grazing
Lips
Mines
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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
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Ruin
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I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.
Craig Thompson / Novelist
Jesus
Crowds
Revolutionary
Mixed
Mostly
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and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.
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Home
Space
Real
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I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.
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Paper
Shorthand
Cartooning
Letting
Origin
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My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
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Disabled
Plumber
Stay At Home
Stay At Home Mom
Assistant
On And Off
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On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.
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Kids
Firsts
Library
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I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.
Craig Thompson / Novelist
Guidance
Life Your Look
Applying
Christians
Life Look Your
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It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
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Carving
Autobiographical
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Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".
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Space
Fall
Lonely
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I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
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Access
Fundamentalist
Sunday
Working Class
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After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.
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Drawing
Mundane
Sick
Autobiographical
Blankets
Comics
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I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.
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Inspiring
Islam
Arabic
Cultures
Emerge
First Things
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You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
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Layers
Soul
Twenties
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
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Aspect
Born Again
Evangelical
Fundamentalist
Both My Parents
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The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.
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Answers
Games
Utah
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Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.
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Confused
Song
Spring
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Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.
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Christianity
Circles
Modern Day
Relate
Senses
Identify
Liberal
Muslim
Resemble
Teachings
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Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.
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Dream
Giving
Reality
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Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.
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Cowboy
Fun
Thinking
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