John Hodgman Quotes

• 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.

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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.

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• People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

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• Not as many people watch ‘Doctor Who’ as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It’s a much larger culture, in the specific sense.

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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.

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• Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don’t understand it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose not to engage in that so much, and end up finding a nice local school that fits.

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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.

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• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity – the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You’re supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the ’60s, and they’ve only aged perhaps five years.

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• 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.

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• I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

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• I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it – it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can’t confess to knowing what’s going on at all.

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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.

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• As a freelance writer, I’d be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

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• There’s a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest – like the Steinbeckian social novel.

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• Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

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• The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

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• The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

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John Hodgman (51)

Birth:	3rd June, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian

About

John Kellogg Hodgman was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He is an American actor, author and comedian. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in literature in 1994. His role in several films include: Baby Mama, The Invention of Lying, The Best and the Brightest, Arthur, Movie 43, Learning to Drive, and Pitch Perfect 2. He has written several books include: The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All.

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