Interviews Quotes - Page 8

• Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.

  Patricia Leavy

  Long, People, Research

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• Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

  Patricia Leavy

  People, Historical, Stories

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• Whether or not I can get an interview from hip-hop media, that's not going to effect whether or not I can go on tour in Asia and Europe and see all of these different places and experiences.

  Le1f

  Media, Europe, Hip Hop

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• In an exclusive interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network Donald Trump said "I believe in god." But of course The Donald was talking about Himself.

  Jay Leno

  Christian, Believe, Talking

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• Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

  Moby

  Kings, Two, People

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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

  Steve Jobs

  Hours, Enough, Needles

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• Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

  Walter Cronkite

  Tough, Duty, Loses

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

  Tom Sizemore

  Football, Writing, Play

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• I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mistake, Nice, Dark

  "Jolie Spoke About Self-harm To Help Others" by wenn.com, June 13, 2008.

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• I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

  Kirstie Alley

  Class, Acting, Agents

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• But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn't interview me for this DVD.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Mean, Dvds, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

  Mike Tyson

  Wish, Want, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

  Steve Cosson

  Personality, Fascination, Diction

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

  Zoey Deutch

  Lying, Reading, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dvds, Years, Effort

  Source: collider.com

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• Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.

  Elton John

  Bisexual, People, Wave

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• You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Thinking, Makeup

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13 ,1997.

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• In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

  Jack Paar

  Acting, Hobbies, Said

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• When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.

  Christian Bale

  Fun, Bored, Finding Yourself

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• I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Afternoon, Want

  "Tough-talker Henry Rollins Is Back, Keeping Things Israel". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. April 13, 2007.

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• I'd never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I've been learning more about it as I've been doing interviews. I didn't even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!

  Billy Connolly

  Home, Numbers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once I saw a homeless man wearing his underwear on top of his pants. Now we say, why don't the homeless just go out and get a job? If he's wearing his underwear on top of his pants, I doubt his resume is in order, and I don't think he's going to make it too far in the interview process. In fact, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's has a no underwear over your pant policy.

  Greg Giraldo

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

  William Hague

  Simple, Giving, Matter

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• When you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Too Much, Unfair

  "Q&A: Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 27, 2009.

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