“I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.” AbleStudentsCollegeProductionsVideoAdvertisingExpensesRevenueCollege Students Author:Marques Brownlee
“I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.” Electronic Music Author:Marques Brownlee
“I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.” MomentsDoubtExcitementSlough Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.” IfsOpinionTownsMusicalInteractionDetroitGreat Music Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.” IfsSportsWatchesLuckyCupsRepublicPostersSwedenCzechPragueCzech Republic Author:Martina Hingis
“I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.” ThinkingGivingWritingStoriesAgeSchoolRememberHigh SchoolGradesFourthFifthFifth Grade Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.” WantedActorsParent Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.” ThinkingWayWritingLittlesRealCharacterSchoolBitsActingNovelTaughtCollegeLittle BitHigh SchoolConnectionsMethodMethod ActingReal Connection Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.” IfsWayFeelsWritingTryingKindPersonsCharacterMightWould BeHouseJournalist Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.” WritingKindCharacterActingGoes On Author:Jeffrey Eugenides