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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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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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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My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
