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I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.
King Tuff
Music
You
Listening
Mind
First
Think
Jimi Hendrix
Broke
Kind
Take
Opened
Him
First-Person
Rock
How
How Far
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Person
Roll
Where
Far
Who
Hendrix
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
Laurie Graham
Work
First
Books
Characters
Telling
Voice
Written
Idea
Steps
First-Person
Hear
Person
Going
Happened
Story
Then
Forward
Her
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.
Lawrence Wright
Me
Word
Journalist
Strictly
Carried
Hiding
Out
Kind
Charge
Come
Forbidden
Around
First-Person
Nashville
Were
Covering
Lot
End
Trained
Fright
Reporter
Movement
Use
Electric
One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.
Lily Rabe
Me
You
Mother
First
Sorry
Single
Unfair
Every
Think
About
She
Because
First-Person
Said
Single Thing
Friends
Person
Them
Stand
Your
Thing
Last
Chance
Every Single Thing
When doing comedy, I do what makes me laugh. The first person I learned from said I should talk about things I am passionate about - that I love or hate - because the audience likes to see passion. The stuff I rant and rave about stems from a place that really pisses me off.
Lisa Lampanelli
Love
Me
Hate
Comedy
Passion
First
Laugh
Rant
See
About
Rave
Stems
Stuff
Talk
Likes
Learned
Because
Makes
Audience
First-Person
Said
Am
Doing
Passionate
Off
Person
Place
Really
Should
Things
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
Lynn Johnston
Man
Mother
Father
Men
First
Met
Meek
Ruled
Kind
Married
Kindly
Had
She
Terrified
First-Person
Dear
Hand
Very
Person
Did
Upper
Upper Hand
Roost
Who
Her
Treated
In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life.
Lynn Nottage
Life
Teacher
Me
Woman
Theatre
College
My Life
First
Year
Few
Playwriting
Possibility
Introduce
Seemed
Touched
Directly
Could
Had
Remote
Until
She
First-Person
Up
Very
Forge
Role
Person
Role Models
Models
Senior
Senior Year
Inaccessible
Paula
Then
Notion
Who
Actually
Career
It's funny because, based on the music I was making before, if you'd asked me who was the one gatekeeper or influencer whom I'd want to hear my music, I don't think Pharrell would be the first person I'd pick.
Maggie Rogers
Funny
Music
Me
You
First
Before
Think
Would
Would-Be
Be The First
Pick
Because
First-Person
Making
Hear
Person
Want
Asked
Who
Whom
Based
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
Manuel Puig
Objective
Clear
Like
Makes
First-Person
Narrator
Camera
Subjective
Very
Hitchcock
Literature
Us
Third
The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.
Mary Gaitskill
Beautiful
Fashion
Most Beautiful
Girl
Seen
First
Had
Named
Most
She
First-Person
Up
Person
Blow
Human
Ever
Consciousness
Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different.
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
Mom
You
Love Is
Communication
Mother
Language
First
Fall
Other
Carries
Case
Almost
Baggage
Because
First-Person
Always
Conditional
Cultural
Times
Forever
Person
Different
Place
Your
Barrier
Fundamentally
Loaded
Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.
Mary Steenburgen
Me
First
Few
Christopher
Spoke
First-Person
Person
Certainly
Who
Film
Ever
Actually
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.
Matt Mullenweg
Education
Me
Business
Photography
First
Community
Philip
Gave
Back
Embraced
Impact
Online
Inspired
Through
Open
Had
He
Knew
Open Source
Around
First-Person
Real
Source
Huge
Huge Impact
Person
Created
Explore
Communities
You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'
Maya Rudolph
Life
You
First
Enjoy
Tell
Be The First
Disappointments
Like
First-Person
Person
Going
Want
Your
Filled
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.
Meg Cabot
Me
Book
World
Books
Introduced
Never
Since
Also
Mostly
Read
Sci-Fi
Narrative
First-Person
Comic
Comic Books
Discovered
Austen
Left
Up
Romance
Which
Jane
Jane Austen
Then
Growing
Growing Up
The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.
Meghan Daum
Work
Hair
First
Relate
Back
Voice
Writer
First-Person
Tradition
Been
Referred
Up
Historically
Person
Use
Stands
Neck
I find it hard to write in the first person.
Michiko Kakutani
First
Find
Write
First-Person
Person
Hard
The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
Me
Man
Mother
First
Besides
Boss
Never
He
Knew
Name
First-Person
Person
Manager
Shop
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Who
Whose
Believed
Last
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.
Nic Pizzolatto
Thinking
Summer
Hart
Detective
Voices
True
True Detective
First-Person
Version
Might
Next
Working
Novel
Two
There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with Tom Stoppard for a bit. My mum was his wife's secretary. He was obviously super smart, but he was also approachable and normal. I think he was the first person I'd ever met who I'd thought, 'Oh, I see. There's a living in this.'
Nick Hornby
Me
Smart
Wife
Thought
First
Met
Living
Think
Teenager
Secretary
Bit
Out
See
Super
Inspired
Adult
He
Also
Obviously
Read
First-Person
Got
Were
His
Normal
Person
Authors
Hang
Oh
Who
Tom
Mum
Ever
I've seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I'm not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I'm not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.
Nick Wooster
Me
Seen
Hair
First
Few
Sleeve
Out
Kind
Freaks
First-Person
Person
Tattoo
Tattoos
Then
Planet
I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
Orhan Pamuk
Enjoy
Characters
First-Person
Always
Singular
I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
Ottessa Moshfegh
Music
Mom
Family
Writing
School
First
Met
States
Croatia
Born
About
Pianist
Piano
Writer
Sort
First-Person
Discovered
Iran
Up
Person
Grew
Interested
Really
Belgium
Dad
United
United States
Started
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
Patti Davis
Character
You
Writing
First
Difficult
Way
Comfortable
First-Person
Very
Person
Third
I'm not the first person to talk about this, but L.A. is just sort of a weird city because it's just a bunch of little towns put together under the umbrella of L.A. So people feel disconnected from each other and far apart, and in a relationship, that can also be a thing.
Paul Rust
Relationship
Together
People
First
Other
City
About
Put
Weird
Feel
Towns
Talk
Also
Sort
Because
First-Person
Disconnected
Umbrella
Bunch
Person
Just
Apart
Little
Far
Each
Thing
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
Pearl Cleage
Character
You
Writing
First
Tell
See
Main
Main Character
First-Person
Author
Person
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