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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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• So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Thinking, Bass, Should

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

  Edward Gorey

  Regret

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• Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Kids, Talking

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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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• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

  Bono

  Confused, Thinking, Talking

  "Relief Pitcher". Interview with Susan Dominus, archive.nytimes.com.

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• I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

  Robert Pattinson

  Doors, Careers, Giving

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• Interviewer: "What keeps you grounded?" Bieber: "Gravity." Interviewer: "What's up, Justin?" Bieber: "The sky, man."

  Justin Bieber

  Cocky, Men, Sky

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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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• 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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• I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Jobs, Knowing, Preparation

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Artist, Trying, Able

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

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• My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Gone, Agents

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

  Emo Philips

  Cutting, Nuts, Strange

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Giants, Ill Tempered

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• When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, Father, Sleep

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

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• News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Different, Needs, News

  "Canadian host George Stroumboulopoulos brings talk show to CNN". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, uk.reuters.com. June 10, 2013.

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• An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Book, Thinking, Answers

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• Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

  Jay Leno

  Teacher, Thank God, Would Be

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• I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.

  Eleanor Catton

  Thinking, Ideas, Luck

  "Eleanor Catton: 'Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, October 16, 2013.

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• How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

  Klaus Schulze

  Thinking, Ask Me, Asks

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.

  Martin Scorsese

  Collaboration, Firsts, Chance

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