Seth MacFarlane Quotes
There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
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The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
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'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.
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The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.
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The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.
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There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'
