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I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
— Seth MacFarlane
It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit.
— Robert Macfarlane
For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.
— Robert Macfarlane
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
— Seth MacFarlane
Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
— Seth MacFarlane
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
— Seth MacFarlane
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
— Seth MacFarlane
The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
— Seth MacFarlane
Landscape ... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.
— Robert Macfarlane
The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.
— Robert Macfarlane
Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
— Seth MacFarlane
Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of thought.
— Robert Macfarlane
The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
— Seth MacFarlane
I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.
— Seth MacFarlane
Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.
— Robert Macfarlane
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
— Robert Macfarlane
Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;
— Robert Macfarlane
Kimmeridge (n.): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing';
— Robert Macfarlane
When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
— Ian Macfarlane
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.
— Seth MacFarlane
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'.
— Seth MacFarlane
There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
— Seth MacFarlane
I distrust all television doctors.
— Seth MacFarlane
Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.
— Robert Macfarlane
Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.
— Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.
— Seth MacFarlane
Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.
— Seth MacFarlane
I don't smoke much pot anymore.
— Seth MacFarlane
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
— Seth MacFarlane
I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.
— Seth MacFarlane
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.
— Seth MacFarlane
I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.
— Seth MacFarlane
Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
— Seth MacFarlane
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
— Seth MacFarlane
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
— Seth MacFarlane
If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.
— Ian Macfarlane
I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
— Seth MacFarlane
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
— Seth MacFarlane
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
You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
— Seth MacFarlane
Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.
— Seth MacFarlane
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
— Seth MacFarlane
I'm bad at golf.
— Seth MacFarlane
These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;
— Robert Macfarlane
My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.
— Seth MacFarlane
Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
— Seth MacFarlane
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
— Seth MacFarlane
The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.
— Alan Macfarlane
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
— Seth MacFarlane
I was a film major with a concentration in animation.
— Seth MacFarlane
You would not want me on your football team.
— Seth MacFarlane
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
— Robert Macfarlane
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.
— Seth MacFarlane
If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
— Seth MacFarlane
Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making.
— Robert Macfarlane
I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
— Seth MacFarlane
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
— Seth MacFarlane
A walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
— Robert Macfarlane
Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.
— Seth MacFarlane
The resistance to science is idiotic.
— Seth MacFarlane
You gotta keep the funny intact.
— Seth MacFarlane
There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
— Bud Macfarlane Jr.
'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.
— Seth MacFarlane
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
— Seth MacFarlane
We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places make of us ...
— Robert Macfarlane
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
— Seth MacFarlane
I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.
— Robert Macfarlane
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
— Seth MacFarlane
We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
— Robert Macfarlane
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
— Seth MacFarlane
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
— Seth MacFarlane
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
— Rachael MacFarlane
The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.
— Seth MacFarlane
Religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
— Seth MacFarlane
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
— Seth MacFarlane
The only problem is time.
— Seth MacFarlane
