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" I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote. "
Thomas Middleditch
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" You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out. "
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" I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons. "
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" In D&D, you're only in that fantasy world. But with GURPS, you can, like, play a game that's Los Angeles film noir, or a game where the premise is you are world-jumpers, and you can go to different worlds. "
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" Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize. "
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Sometimes
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" I make very basic country rustic furniture. "
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" I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars. "
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" After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to. "
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" I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program. "
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