If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
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Related Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus... CHRIS CRUTCHER I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it'... LASSE HALLSTROM I grew up watching Pixar movies. And my favourite - if you don't count 'The Good Dinosaur... RAYMOND OCHOA I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club&... JEN LANCASTER teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha... RICK YANCEY The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfathe... ASHLEY TISDALE My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Gun... ORSON SCOTT CARD You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Pu... JENNIFER ESPOSITO If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I... SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. CHUCK PALAHNIUK My good man, from Amsterdam. BEN OAK If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Dem... T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff alwa... EDDIE MURPHY My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several... STEVEN WRIGHT My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li... ALDEN EHRENREICH From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a mi... HOMARO CANTU My favourite animal would probably be - probably be a dingo. Because I like how in the night you can... BINDI IRWIN When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free the... IAN MACKAYE I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it... ROBIN ROBERTS What's my favourite food? One you order out. ABIGAIL BRESLIN I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor! CASEY WILSON Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anyt... CINDY MARGOLIS And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautif... BEN LOVETT If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes. RALPH NORMAN You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That&... LARRY FITZGERALD If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now ... MICHAEL ANGARANO My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are. JIMMY KIMMEL It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s... M.I.A. My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit chorus... ED SHEERAN Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name a... MALUMA Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa... LOUIS SACHAR I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial. EDDIE SLOVIK I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lo... PALOMA FAITH I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. I... DAVE GROHL I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That'... VINCENT GALLO I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series ... DAVID TENNANT Sportsmen just do what they do. I'm not trying to be a role model. If there's any inspiratio... ANTHONY JOSHUA My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top ... CHARLES J. SHIELDS My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. A... JESSICA HAGEDORN I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same... FRENCH STEWART My favourite part... I guess it's my legs. ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch', a Will Smith thing. CHRIS MONEYMAKER I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. B... FRED DURST My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Ha... RALPH ALLEN My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and the... JOHN CAUDWELL It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, i... SAM LEVENSON My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.' ALEX PETTYFER Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've pr... TOM HOLLAND In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ... JESS WALTER My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no... VINNY GUADAGNINO Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.'... BOB ELLIOTT My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, wr... TASHA SMITH I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's ... SHANE KOYCZAN If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'th... WINONA RYDER But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a... DAVID BRIN My jewelry's all fake - from Claire's. Or I get it from my mom's boutique in Barbados. RIHANNA I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c... JOE PISCOPO Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have t... HAL SPARKS I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my li... ROBERT ORBEN All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never... XAVIER DOLAN The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... LIL UZI VERT My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, do... VICTORIA AVEYARD My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends. GIA COPPOLA Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live ... JODI PICOULT I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I s... JOE ARPAIO I think that there are laughs in all aspects of life. I'm not a planner; stuff comes along and y... JULIE WHITE If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustra... TRACY ANDERSON One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the b... MIKE BIRBIGLIA All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real. KING KRULE I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again ... PATRICK WARBURTON I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ... JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother ... EMILIO ESTEVEZ I'm always down to share my secrets, share my beauty tips. Most of the stuff my fans never knew ... KYLIE JENNER I'll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost ... THOM BROWNE When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground,... FRANK IERO I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my s... AYUMI HAMASAKI I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers. ADAM FERRARA People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doe... SHAWN MICHAELS The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You... DOM DELUISE I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sound... KATHLEEN HANNA When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com. CATE BLANCHETT I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one... MARIE ANTOINETTE abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo... M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign. MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain, MY MORNING JACKET If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll ... BAE DOONA Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, a... PAUL STANLEY I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will s... BILL BENNETT My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that ha... BUSTA RHYMES I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops. AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and... NEIL GAIMAN If I need to take a break from work, I'll just Google dogs that are up for adoption in L.A. I re... GEORGIA KING My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the bu... GUY KAWASAKI One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i... NATALIE COLE
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