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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. "
Seth MacFarlane
You
Over
Doing
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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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" I'm bad at golf. "
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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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" Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies. "
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" I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood. "
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" I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no. "
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" 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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" 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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You
" There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith. "
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People
Faith
" Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college. "
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Family
New
Sick
" 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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Creative
Good
Funny
" 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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Writing
Slow
You
" 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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Enough
Mother
Same
" I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. "
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Bravo
Wrote
Show
" The only problem is time. "
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Problem
Only
" 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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" 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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Internet
World
" 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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" 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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You
Boston
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Always
" Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. "
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Drawing
First
" 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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