Interviews Quotes - Page 6

• Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

  Bob Edwards

  Work Out, Tape, Hours

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• The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

  John Adams

  Simple, Government, America

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• God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

  Jason Isaacs

  Hate, Actors, Want

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• An interview is like a minefield.

  Michelle Williams

  Minefields

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• The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

  Anthony Powell

  Writing, Ideas, Answers

  The Times, May 15, 1986.

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• When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Answers, Lessons

  "Dave Grohl: The ‘Sonic Highways’ Exit Interview". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Stuff, Boring

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Scarlett Johansson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, Wish, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

  Kristen Stewart

  Looks, Actors, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.

  Kristen Stewart

  Interesting, Watches, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to be careful when you're doing an interview.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Be Careful, Careful

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

  Katie Couric

  Talking, Issues, People

  "Katie Couric Opens Up About Her New Talk Show". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 6, 2011.

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• It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

  Billy Corgan

  Play, Guy, Way

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale, I think these videos are an accurate representation of who I am. As weird as they may be, I'm at least proud of them, and it showed that I do have a slightly different voice. I can't tell you how often people bring up these videos in interviews, and I'm so happy to talk about them because we created them from the ground up.

  Dave Franco

  Thinking, Who I Am, Hands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Writing, Warhol, Understood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

  James Ellroy

  Mean, Self, Talking

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

  Muriel Spark

  Interviewers, Depends

  Source: tobylitt.wordpress.com

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• In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.

  Karen Armstrong

  Views, Order, Wish

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Real, Guests, Host

  "Jenny McCarthy Breaks Down Her New Talk Show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass, and for heaven and rating's sake, don't make anybody mad- - certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the mayor, the governor, the senator, the president or the vice-president or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Moving, Kissing

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• I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Thinking, Talking, Creating

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between a man and a woman will become illegal. He believes there will be a war. He believes it'll begin in schools and the Christian kids will rise up and slay the non-Christian kids. This was an on-camera interview!

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Spiritual, War

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

  Jonathan Cain

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

  "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!

  Katharine Hepburn

  Welcome

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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