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Jennifer Gilmore Revealed
About Jennifer Gilmore
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What is your birthdate?:6/19
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Previous occupations:camp counselor, telemarketer, radio host, bartender, publicity director, teacher
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Favorite job:When the writing is going well, nothing beats being a writer.
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High school and/or college:I went to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and Brandeis University. I went to graduate school at Cornell.
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Name of your favorite composer or music artist?:Just one? How cruel. Bob Dylan
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Favorite movie:I can't choose a movie, but I can choose a decade: the 70's. Nothing beats that era for the movies.
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Favorite television show:Mad Men. Mad Men. Mad Men.
Revealing Questions
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. If I had one perhaps I would be better off...
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. Sitting on a warm rock, a mountain to my back, my dog swimming in a cold lake. If someone I love is with me, even better.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. I believe that might reveal too much about me!
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. somewhere I haven't yet been.
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. does my grandmother count?
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. if I could combine Barbra Streisand, Madeleine Albright, Martina Navratilova and Zadie Smith, well, she would be someone to admire.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. let's all just take the gaspipe then
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. not learning how to speak many languages and believing money doesn't matter.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. I'd like to be one of those people who comes in and organizes your closet. Or a really amazing singer.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. Honestly, I think it's yet to come.
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. duality
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. I'm good with people.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. A calm, organized and patient person or thing.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Jane Eyre
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Philip Roth (yes)
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. Judy Garland. I'd ask her if my father really was at Carnegie Hall and if it's true she almost fell into his lap.
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. As a New Yorker, it's the not cleaning up after your dog on the street. Petty, but true.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. theatergoer
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. heiress
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. loyalty, humor, generosity
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. a lobster roll from Reds
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. those would have to be timeless so: If you See Her Say Hello, Bob Dylan; Nina Simone's Here Comes the Sun, Tom Waits, Closing Time; Joni Mitchell, River; Metal heart, Cat Power. Uplifting stuff, only to me it really is.
