Interviews Quotes - Page 40

• At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent.

  Jon Stewart

  Approval Rating, President, Riding

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• I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

  Lana Del Rey

  Regret, Writing, Ambition

  "Lana Del Rey has a problem with our interview ... but why?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

  PJ Harvey

  People, Difficult, Music Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

  Retief Goosen

  Bother, Radar

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• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Song, Writing, Musician

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Writing, School, Kids

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• No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

  Julian Casablancas

  Talking, Matter

  "The Strokes: Elegantly Wasted". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.rollingstone.com. November 13, 2003.

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• People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

  Victoria Wood

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.

  Mary Katharine Ham

  Circles, Political, Trying

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• I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

  Bob Ross

  Turns, Request

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• I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.

  Chris Ducker

  Google, Done, Visitors

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• Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

  Brad Delson

  Spring, Beer, Water

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• Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Dirty, Sometimes, Frustrating

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• I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.

  Preity Zinta

  Media, People, Friendly

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• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Home, Writing, Suicidal

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.115, A&C Black

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• The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

  Martin Amis

  "When Amis met Updike ..." by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.

  Armand Hammer

  People, Today, Revolution

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Believe, Writing, Giving

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• How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

  Trevor McDonald

  Names, Feet, Knowing

  "Q&A: Trevor McDonald". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.

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• Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Hate, Boring, Knows

  "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

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• For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

  Evan Davis

  People, Principles, Benefits

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• When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

  Chester Brown

  Teenager, Interesting, Stories

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• Ah, I don't do interviews, really.

  Joe Pesci

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