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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
Author
Comedian
Film Actor
Podcaster
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Television Actor
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
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What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road.
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
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People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.
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I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.
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I actually own a copy of my own book that's how dedicated I am as an author.
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From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.
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A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman) while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.
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I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination what a hassle that would be!
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Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.
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Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
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So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
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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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