Matt Groening Quotes
'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
Quotes to Explore
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You can't really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.
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But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
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Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.
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'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
