John Hodgman Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  John Hodgman

  Stars, Believe, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

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  Squares, Would Be, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

  John Hodgman

  Character, Play, Personality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Awful, Truth Is

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

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  Perseverance, Player, Night

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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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  People, My Family, Photograph

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

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  Play, People, Community

  "Q&A: John Hodgman on perfecting the illusion of expertise". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. September 22, 2008.

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• When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Good Friend, Giving

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. June 30, 2011.

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• As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

  John Hodgman

  Sports, Topics, Knows

  "John Hodgman’s area of ignorance: 1 topic the self-proclaimed expert on everything knows nothing about". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. Nobember 10, 2009.

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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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  Wine, Experts, Magazines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.

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  Leader, Hunters, Frozen

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• Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.

  John Hodgman

  Car, Buttons, Three

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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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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  Writing, Long, Mind

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

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  Book, Sorrow, Defining

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.14, Penguin

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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

  Humble, Personality, Degrees

  Intwrview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

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  Fake, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel bad, and I don’t want to make their problems into a joke. I do love telling people when they’re right and wrong, but for the most part, it was always going to be about real fights where people have a real difference of opinion and a real dispute. I want to make jokes, but I also want to make a decision that is fair.

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  Real, Fighting, Differences

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Fiction

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.18, Penguin

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• The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

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  Character, Stories, Villain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

  John Hodgman

  Hurt, Cult Of Personality, Domes

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

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  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

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  Jobs, Lying, Interesting

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• 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.

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  Thinking, World, Littles

  "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.

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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

  Trying, Internet, Failing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

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  People, Doe

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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