Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
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You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
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You call me Mr. Pitiful. Baby that's my name now, oh. They call me Mr. Pitiful. That's how I got my fame. But people just don`t understand, now. What makes a man feel so blue, now. Ooh, they call me Mr. Pitiful. Cause I lost someone just like you, now.
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He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
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You get ideas from other people all the time.
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You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.
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When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.
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When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
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One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.
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You would not want me on your football team.
