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" Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves. "
Seth MacFarlane
Having
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" People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner. "
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" Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day. "
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" The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show. "
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" We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny. "
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" I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. "
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" There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith. "
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" If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.' "
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" The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing. "
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" Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. "
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" The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now. "
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" At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater. "
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" I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal. "
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" I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing. "
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" Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup. "
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