Incredibly, Time magazine put "Glee" star Chris Colfer in its 2011 listing of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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There I was, Chris Colfer, a 16-year-old, 200-pound overachieving-but-underappreciated high school sophomore you could light a match off my acne and construct a steam engine with the metal in my mouth.

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"I don't like writing essays for English therefore I won't like writing for the Writer's Club" was a very similar attitude to "I don't like "Glee" therefore I won't like anything to do with Chris Colfer".

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