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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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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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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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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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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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
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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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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.
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A people that began to think as citizens rather than subjects might transcend underdevelopment on their own. Inalienable human right is unique in that it needs no superhuman guarantee; no 'fount' except itself. Only servility requires the realm (suggestive word) of illusion. Illusions, of course, cannot be abolished. But they can and must be outgrown.
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It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.
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I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
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God often gives nuts to toothless people.
