Interviews Quotes - Page 31

• I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

  Henry Rollins

  Iran, People, Palestine

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• I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked on in college. A friend of mine asked me to do a stage reading of that book and I was just completely blown away because, at that point, I was like, 'Acting's having fun with your friends and making people laugh.'

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Book, Men

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• We were looking to collaborate with someone on both those fronts [ writing and directing] and it ended up just being me [in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. So, at this point, it's the epitome of a passion project and I just hope people like it.

  John Krasinski

  Passion, Writing, Men

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• You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Writing, Issues, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or any attempts at interviews, whenever I'd write something about him, he'd be on the street corner saying, `When's it going to run? When's it going to run?' But I must say that album that was - it was the second album he did, and though I've never been a fan of his guitar-playing, he did - I have to admit, he did catch the Zeitgeist of the time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Writing, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wife, Bob, Want

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

  Nat Hentoff

  Careers, Bob, Stones

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• John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

  John Lewis

  Insanity, President, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The only reason I do these interviews - I hate talking about myself, I hate doing this stuff - is because incredibly well-meaning people, whom I respect and trust, tell me that this will help bring about positive changes. It's not going to cause a sea change, but it will benefit the public.

  Edward Snowden

  Hate, Talking, Sea

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I used to bug all of the comedians for interviews, and when people want to talk to me, sometimes I'm very receptive and sometimes I say no. Sometimes if I say no, I think, "If they're smart, they'll figure out how to not accept this no."

  Judd Apatow

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said, "I'd like the Statue of Liberty to disappear, but I want to do it as a lesson in freedom, how valuable freedom is and what the world would be like without liberty." And Frank Capra looked at me and said, "David, I love your idea, but here's what you're going to do. You're going to try and it's not going to work; it's not going to disappear." And I said, "Mr. Capra, I can't do that."

  David Copperfield

  Love You, Ideas, Idols

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Sleep, Wife

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Long John would sometimes hold his interviews in the Carnegie Delicatessen, which is the most famous delicatessen in New York up by Carnegie. Let's see, 57th Street, you're down to like 50th Street and 7th Avenue... You'd go in there and everybody would be eating a heart attack on a plate, pastrami, malts, that kind of stuff. But it literally was the place where Woody Allen would go.

  Paul Laffoley

  New York, Heart, Long

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• You saw in your interview with Speaker [Paul] Ryan, though, an echo of what the White House and the president [Donald Trump] have started to say, which is, well, we`re not going to get a check from Mexico to pay for the wall on the front end. We`re going to find some way to get the money back, but initially will be paid for by the U.S.

  Mark Halperin

  Wall, White, Echoes

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The media and the interviews are great, but that does not help me make a call on the field. To me, I've got to work the game, and I've got to be great at it.

  Sarah Thomas

  Media, Games, Fields

  Source: elitedaily.com

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• I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

  David LaChapelle

  Believe, Cracks, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

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• I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be.

  Tom Hanks

  Giving, Way, Goofy

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.

  Lilly Singh

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Unique

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I watch a lot of interviews with Selena [Gomez] because she's been in the public eye for so long and she's dealt with a lot of critique that I believe is unwarranted, but maybe that's just me being a fangirl.

  Lilly Singh

  Believe, Eye, Long

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".

  Joseph Stalin

  Europe, Peaceful, Paper

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• In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Sports, Book, School

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• What is a fair shot for a job applicant? An interview? Or getting the job? See, with Obama, the opportunity is not what's fair; it's the outcome. He's gonna dictate the outcome. And the premise is that the longest term unemployed person is the one who's been screwed the most. These evil employers have got something against these people that have been out of work the longest. And Obama's here to level that playing field. So if you're out of work longer than anybody else, that's all that matters. You are at the top of the hiring list.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Thinking, Economic Models

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?"

  Itzhak Perlman

  Believe, Parent, Google

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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