Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
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TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I love mixing horror with comedy.
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Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.
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One reason of Andy Griffith Show popularity is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
