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Matt Stone, born on May 26, 1971, is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the animated television series 'South Park', which has brought him widespread recognition and acclaim.

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“I just get my news from the Internet.”

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“I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'”

Party Couple Awards Academy Talk To Me Academy Awards

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“I would vote for a Mormon.”

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“I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?”

Happens Hollywood Producers Lame

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“I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.”

Knows Relation China Russia Chinese Soviet

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“In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.”

Ifs Shows Comeuppance

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“It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'”

Thinking Next Games Football Okay Coaches Episodes Really True

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“Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.”

Levels Deeper Keep Going

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“So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'”

Thinking Shows Taken Deliberate

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“Sometimes I wish I could get fired.”

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“That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.”

Ifs Knows Certain Decision Principles Paper Commit Narrative Inconsistency

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“The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.”

People Thinking Kind Culture Stuff Levels Therapy Shock Coarse Shock Therapy

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“The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.”

Movement Pride Annoying Hipster

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“We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.”

People Trying Entertainers

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“We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.”

Shows Fun Hours Air Goes On Scene Twelve Animated

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“Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness.”

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“I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.”

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“We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.”

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“I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.”

Whole Use Levels Emotional Gravity

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“If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.”

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“It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.”

Years Two Ideas Fighting Three Fun Levels Creative Budgets Three Years Constipation

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“Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.”

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“Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.”

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“We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.”

Knows Long Has Beens Enough Shows Easy Loses Awards Award Shows

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“We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.”

Kind School High School Smoking Sections Immature

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“There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.”

Hollywood Smugness Aggravating

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“How many fluids should you take in daily? That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time. If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.”

Ifs Needs Should Running Given Answers Running Away Fluid Variables

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“Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath. The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air – taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced.”

Trying Body Term Cutting Air Overcoming Breaths Your Body Fats Deficit Short Term Calories Dieting Carbs

Book:Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food

Source: Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food

“When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.”

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“And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.”

America Fun Team Wall Throwing Puppets Visceral Team America

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“There are good characters and bad characters.”

Character Good Character Bad Character

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“Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?”

People Ifs Way Stories Social Nice Inspire What If Right Way Goofy Social Good Goofiness

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“Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.”

People Done Shows Sense Of Humor

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“I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.”

Thinking Self Atheism Atheist Decades

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“I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.”

World Want Important Shows Republican Democrat

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“I'm concerned about people being happy.”

People Concerned

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“With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'”

Ifs Doe Matter Make You Happy Does It Matter

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“Anything you do to lose weight should be as easy as it can possibly be and still deliver results.”

Should Stills Easy Loses Results Weight Lose Weight

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“The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do.”

Knows Years Done Shows Lasts Knowing South Parks

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Born: May 26, 1971
Known for: Actor
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