Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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To have simple structures and organizations with minimal hierarchical levels, with human development and in house training of executive functions. To have flexibility and speed in making decisions. Operating with the advantages of the small business, which are what comprise big businesses.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
