Matt Groening Quotes
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
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Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
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It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.
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God often gives nuts to toothless people.
