John Hodgman Quotes
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
