John Hodgman quotes - page 2

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. (John Hodgman)
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character. View quote
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As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports. View quote
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I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated. View quote
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Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting. View quote
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What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it. View quote
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A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate. View quote
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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. (John Hodgman)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am not an Internet superstar. View quote
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My fame is due to broadcast television. View quote
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' View quote
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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. View quote
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. View quote
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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. (John Hodgman)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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