Ego Quote by Jonathan Coulton

“I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.”

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There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's…

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Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't…

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I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody…

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I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this…

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I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways…

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You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you…

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But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

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Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.

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For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

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It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says…

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I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of…

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One thing I've learned is that the audience not only wants to be talked to but they also like to talk back. Maybe that's…

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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if…

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