Interviewers Quotes

• The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

  Steve Cosson

  Ideas, Mind, Something New

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

  Jay Duplass

  Party, Giving, Interviews

  Source: collider.com

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• Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long, Answers, Care

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• A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

  Clare Balding

  Dark, Despair, Depth

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• You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I can't even think of dying. I fly all over the world, drive everywhere, and when I get home, I find interviewers and photographers and TV shows waiting for me. No wonder I'm so busy.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Hard Work, Home, Thinking

  Source: theendofcollection.wordpress.com

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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

  Muriel Spark

  Interviews, Depends

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• Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done.
  Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Passion, Data, People

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• Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Trying, Doe, Answers

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• Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.

  Bruce Forsyth

  People, Proud, Matter

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• Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.

  Roger Ebert

  Cheer, Book, Lists

  Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.714, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

  Missy Elliot

  Beautiful, Nice, Trying

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.

  Glenda Gilmore

  Jewels, Together, Sensitive

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• The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Would Be, Want

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• One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

  Dhani Harrison

  Father, Betrayed, Feels

  Bopgraphy/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Funny, Dog, Years

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• Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

  Edward Gorey

  Regret

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• All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

  Hubert Green

  Golf, Experts, Want

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• Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Black, Stories

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• And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Voice, Hobbies, Television

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Atheism, Want

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• I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Narrative, Jazz

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• Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Stress, Writing, Honey

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• I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Thinking, Practice, Names

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• Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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