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It took two months from the day my fiance proposed to my first Google search for 'wedding planning: how?' Now, let me interrupt myself here and share how much I hate using the word 'fiance.' It's so fancy, and it's hard not to sound like a jerk saying it. Which is why I will be using my own word for fiance: gloob.
Ellie Kemper
Saying
Myself
Day
Me
Hate
Word
Will
First
Google
Own
Took
Months
My Own
Wedding
Proposed
Share
Like
How
Sound
How Much
Fiance
Which
Fancy
Much
Planning
Hard
Using
Search
Jerk
Now
Why
Here
Interrupt
Two
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
Ellie Kemper
Great
Way
States
City
Angeles
Similar
More
Weirdest
New
Like
Most
Great Way
Los
Los Angeles
America
York
New York
United
United States
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
Ellie Kemper
Teacher
You
Better
Sometimes
School
Practice
Painting
Think
Say
High
High School
Through
True
Like
Get
Just
Want
Used
Paint
It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.
Ellie Kemper
You
People
School
Comedy
Matter
College
Met
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Background
High
High School
Seems
Feel
Term
Like
Schooling
Terms
Because
Lot
Irrelevant
Where
Formal
Wherever
Interesting
Century
Really
Your
Who
Found
A lot of people ask, 'What's the best advice Tina Fey's given you?' But she doesn't, like, go about doling out advice - like, 'I've got another tip for you!'
Ellie Kemper
Best
You
People
Advice
Out
About
Given
Like
She
Another
Got
Go
Lot
Tina
Fey
Tip
Ask
I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.
Ellie Kemper
Love
You
Every
Khan
Dress
He
Put
Feel
Like
Looks
Makes
Belongs
Royalty
Museum
I have very sensitive skin, and so, whenever I can, I want to give it a rest. I'm, like, the moisturizing queen.
Ellie Kemper
Queen
Rest
Skin
Give
Like
Very
Whenever
Want
Sensitive
If I'm alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My go-to is everything in a bowl like quinoa, avocado. Later in the day, scrambled eggs. I'm not a gourmet chef. I cook in bulk very well.
Ellie Kemper
Alone
Myself
Good
Day
Good Job
Job
Everything
Later
Pretty
Pretty Good
Tend
Foods
Like
Bowl
Well
Chef
Healthful
Bulk
Gourmet
Very
Eggs
Scrambled
Cook
Preparing
What's shocking to me is seeing people walking around with green juices in their hand when the weather's bad in New York. I couldn't think of anything more awful to have when it's sleeting outside. Like, 'Oh, I'm craving some liquified kale right now.'
Ellie Kemper
Me
People
Weather
Think
Bad
Seeing
Some
More
Outside
New
Like
Around
Juices
Hand
Shocking
Walking
Green
York
Oh
New York
Anything
Craving
Now
Awful
Right
Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying.
Elliot Ackerman
Son
Mother
Wife
Daughter
Military
Mine
Danger
Mortal
Idea
Like
Terrifying
Being
Whether
Your
Novelist
It was like my part-time job as a kid to be an adventurer... in my head. I used to sword-fight in the garden and in the park - with my Nan, of all people, with my Nan who can barely walk! I used to make her run around, and I'd go around destroying these trees and cones and stuff.
Elliot Knight
Garden
People
Walk
Job
Trees
Kid
Destroying
Run
All People
Park
Head
Part-Time
Stuff
Adventurer
Like
Make
Around
Go
Barely
Used
Who
Her
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
Elliot Perlman
History
Down
Characters
More
Somewhat
Laying
Students
Like
Make
Smoothly
Dialogue
Opposed
Go
Lecturing
Children
Wanted
Story
Avoid
Appearing
Novels
I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.
Elliot Perlman
Life
You
Pickup
World
Animals
Own
Cute
Sign
Would
Fabulous
Born
Truck
Name
Like
Remotely
Rock
Dogma
Sounds
Irrational
Any
Going
Just
Taurus
Which
Prefer
Really
Your
Star
Why
Interpret
Utterly
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
Elliot Perlman
Vote
Women
Way
Like
Know
Mostly
Frequently
How
Contrary
Festivals
Literary
Them
Speaking
Who
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.
Elliot Perlman
Me
Quality
Try
Will
Down
Possible
Only
Write
Like
Concerned
Affect
Scotch
Going
Being
Might
Awake
Keep
Night
Alert
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
Elliot Richardson
Heroes
Men
Become
Nation
Seemed
Only
Could
Had
Like
Singers
Ball
Rock
Were
Task
Often
Probity
Where
Who
Large
Players
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
Elliott Abrams
Big
Own
Kid
Obama
Brother
Only
Records
Like
Judging
Big Brother
His
Achievements
Standard
Whose
Set
The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.
Elliott Abrams
You
Intelligence
National
White
White House
Way
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Spin
Classified
More
More Or Less
Like
Leaks
House
Democratic
Fairly
Hand
Any
Committee
Regard
Information
Jay
Use
Less
Appears
Briefing
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
Elliott Erwitt
Good
Extraordinarily
Berlin
Eastern
Part
Like
Lot
Museums
It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.
Elliott Smith
Drop
Band
Signed
Kind
Carry
Point
Had
Like
Ball
Up
Quitting
After
Then
Certain
Certain Point
Ridiculous
Bomb
Right
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Elliott Smith
Trees
Jobs
Like
Also
Around
Spreading
Doing
Odd
Odd Jobs
Bamboo
Gravel
Portland
I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
Elliott Smith
Better
New
Like
Than
York
Just
New York
Different
Place
Really
Different Place
Portland
I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.
Ellsworth Kelly
Plant
Drawings
Drawn
Able
Minutes
Ten
Ten Minutes
Like
Five
Get
Curves
Swift
I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.
Ellsworth Kelly
Time
Myself
Important
Older
Guess
Way
Only
Like
Always
Been
Than
Same
Artists
In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.
Ellsworth Kelly
Old
First
White
Late
Collage
Out
Something
Paris
Almost
Stuff
Like
Liked
Because
Making
Coming
Lot
Antique
Wall
Did
Wanted
Really
Separate
Old Stuff
Started
I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
Elmer Bernstein
You
Emotions
Car
Intimate
Stay
Direct
More
Like
Comedies
Years
Westerns
Did
Prefer
Much
Really
Film
Away
Association
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