Interviews Quotes - Page 11

• In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take.

  Conan O'Brien

  Sex, Cities, Isis

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• Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Softball, Vulgarity Is, Usual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The media wants a nice guy, so I can give that to them. I figured I could be myself in this interview since no one's gonna read this JV newspaper.

  Dabo Swinney

  Nice, Media, Giving

  Source: theblacksheeponline.com

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• I'm always surprised by how many people give up before they enter the room. They buy into the hype - that there are so many more qualified applicants, that no one's hiring - and assume they're not going to get the job. You've got to go into every interview believing this is the one you're going to nail.

  Nicole Williams

  Jobs, Giving Up, Believe

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

  Nicole Williams

  People, Underestimate, Poor

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've been asked everything. And I always give answers. I don't shy away from anything.

  Kevin Hart

  Book, Giving, Fans

  "The “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 9, 2013.

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• For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

  Moby

  Fall, Careers, Drunk

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Winter, Thinking

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?

  Paul Auster

  New York, Distance, Paris

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy et Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'

  Moby

  Sorry, Kids, Gay

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.

  Moses Malone

  Play, Balls, Want

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Couple, Rocks, Coke

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Differences, Broken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.

  Alison Rosen

  Healing, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.

  Alison Rosen

  Want, Way, Cry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

  Sam Riley

  Three, Cards, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Editors, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.

  Kola Boof

  Mean, White, Childhood

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• The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.

  Kola Boof

  Men, Photo Of Me, Phones

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.

  Jake T. Austin

  Giving, Supportive, Fans

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• I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?

  Sarah Stillman

  Powerful, Team, Past

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?

  Sarah Stillman

  Children, Terrible Events, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, Would Be, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.

  Mohammad Marandi

  War, Iran, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.

  Tod Goldberg

  Class, People, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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