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John Hodgman
John Hodgman
American Comedian
Born: Jun 3, 1971
Like Me People Think World You
Related authors: George Carlin Groucho Marx Milton Berle Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Steven Wright W. C. Fields
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight. John Hodgman
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Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. John Hodgman
Time You Try Internet Worst Worst Thing Meme Fail Like Any Automatic Create Thing
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great. John Hodgman
Great Celebrate Thought Somehow Had Part Well Always Were Really Things Desire
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous. John Hodgman
You Correcting Definition See He Perfectionist Look Meticulous Dictionary Mean Henry
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. John Hodgman
Book Own My Own How Am Author Dedicated Actually Copy
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly. John Hodgman
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Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me. John Hodgman
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I am not an Internet superstar. John Hodgman
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While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with. John Hodgman
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. John Hodgman
Great People Comedy Avenue Drama Television Does Offer Film Careers
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. John Hodgman
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When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager. John Hodgman
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind. John Hodgman
Music Time Mind Thought Long Long Time Distracting Would Write Vault Unconscious Until Because Without Certain Productivity Actually Appreciated
In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble. John Hodgman
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I know nothing about letting go. John Hodgman
Nothing About Know Go Letting Letting Go
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting. John Hodgman
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It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud. John Hodgman
Needs Generation Humble Personality Degree Whatever Live Every Seems Consumer Proud Am Sell Up Legacy Literary Public Electronics
Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. John Hodgman
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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about. John Hodgman
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Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors. John Hodgman
Love Nurture Cocktail Incredible One Thing Find Ability Parties Editors Taste Authors Common Aside Agents Publishers Thing
One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably. John Hodgman
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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.' John Hodgman
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My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. John Hodgman
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There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. John Hodgman
Earnest Like Deadly Tradition American Fiction Social Novel Serious
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire. John Hodgman
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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. John Hodgman
Me Sports Society Please Telling Like Stop Ask Should Why
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