John Hodgman Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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I guess those of us who have been with NASA … kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
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It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land - born was the leader of man. All going down to see the Lord Jesus.
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I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
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Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.
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When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
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It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.
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When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.
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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.
