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" I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. "
Seth MacFarlane
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" The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television. "
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" What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes. "
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" I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town. "
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" The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done. "
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" If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical. "
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" There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!' "
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" With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. "
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" I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood. "
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" When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. "
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" There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.' "
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" Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny. "
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" The resistance to science is idiotic. "
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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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New
Special
Time
" Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. "
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Success
" You gotta keep the funny intact. "
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" I'm bad at golf. "
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Golf
Bad
" The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science. "
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" There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have. "
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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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Dinner
Internet
World
" I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama. "
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Future
Loved
Hope
" Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it. "
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" I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens. "
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" When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music. "
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" Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves. "
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" Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. "
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" If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'. "
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" The only problem is time. "
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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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" Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies. "
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