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" The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there. "

Seth MacFarlane

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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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" I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail. "

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" What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes. "

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