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I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
Author
Comedian
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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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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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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I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
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The fact is I'm very self-similar.
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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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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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My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.
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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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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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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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I know nothing about letting go.
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I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.
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Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.
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I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
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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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It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.
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I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.
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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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Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.
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Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me.
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