Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Which writers or artists most influenced your work?
Taste & recommendation
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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Time & hindsight
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Craft & work
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What are you unwilling to optimise?
Values & belief
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I’d have lesser expectations — those expectations not being as great might actually be more effective
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I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.
Jodi Picoult
American author
I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
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to isolate and to force myself to write
I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.
I would say start off small, build from there.
I need to know what my editing voice is
I am my target audience
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