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You make widgets? I thought you made cricket bats. and 9 more things *not* to say in a job interview
You make widgets? I thought you made cricket bats. and 9 more things *not* to say in a job interview
I’m such a chronic relativist, I can’t hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. It’s very rare in life to be sure about something – particularly when it’s an issue. I’m a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next. But on this one I’ve just been so sure all along – and it’s quite gratifying to work on something where you feel certitude instead of, oh, maybe I’m wrong.Hugh Grant in a rare interview, he tells Decca Aitkenhead about standing up for what is right, fatherhood and the genius of Aardman
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For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
- Agyness Deyn on changing careers
People in the US have a wrong idea about the English. They think they’re so uptight – but the Bafta awards last night were so loose. Billy Bob Thornton thinks there’s a strong affinity between the American south and the English. Which explains why three Brits turn up unexpectedly in his latest film, Jayne Mansfield’s Car
Zach Braff might be best-known for playing the nervy, nerdy doctor JD in hit US show Scrubs, but he’s also trying his hand at writing drama. Braff tells Kate Abbott about his play All New People, a dark comedy about four people stuck in a beach house, looks back on the unlikely rollercoaster of Scrubs – and explains why, some day, he’d love to do a ‘bumbling heist movie’
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people useInterview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream | Media | The Guardian (via stephenabbott)
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Age 25
Education Calhoun school, New York City; Bronx Science, New York
Career 2005 founder, Davidville 2007 founder and chief executive, Tumblr
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‘I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for a decade’Carey Mulligan on baring all before the camera to star in Shame
Vice-president of the University of Chile Student Federation, 23-year-old Camila Vallejo has led a campaign for better access to education that began in April 2011. The student movement in Chile opposes neoliberalism and shook the country’s elitist democracy. She was voted person of the year in a poll of guardian.co.uk readers
Mars Rover Snaps Stunning Self-Portrait
NASA put together this artsy image of Mars rover Opportunity getting a glimpse of its own shadow on the...