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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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• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Responsibility, Guitar

  "An open letter from the Cobain family", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2001.

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• I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

  PJ Harvey

  Attention, Pay, Too Much

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Father, Nice

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview with the Wall St Journal in which he said the social contract's dead; we finally got rid of it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Leader, President

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

  Dick Cavett

  Kids, Advice, Frost

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2006.

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• The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Beautiful, Liars, Views

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• Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Giving, One Day, Magazines

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• Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Team, Reality, America

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. December 19, 2014.

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• As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

  Ben Stein

  Media, People, Personality

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• I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.

  Mauricio Kagel

  Teacher, School, Position Of Power

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• For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

  Moby

  Fall, Careers, Drunk

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I'm always surprised by how many people give up before they enter the room. They buy into the hype - that there are so many more qualified applicants, that no one's hiring - and assume they're not going to get the job. You've got to go into every interview believing this is the one you're going to nail.

  Nicole Williams

  Jobs, Giving Up, Believe

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.

  Alison Rosen

  Healing, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Couple, Rocks, Coke

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'

  Moby

  Sorry, Kids, Gay

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The media wants a nice guy, so I can give that to them. I figured I could be myself in this interview since no one's gonna read this JV newspaper.

  Dabo Swinney

  Nice, Media, Giving

  Source: theblacksheeponline.com

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• I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?

  Sarah Stillman

  Powerful, Team, Past

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.

  Kola Boof

  Men, Photo Of Me, Phones

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

  Sam Riley

  Three, Cards, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.

  Tod Goldberg

  Class, People, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?

  Sarah Stillman

  Children, Terrible Events, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.

  Alison Rosen

  Want, Way, Cry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Softball, Vulgarity Is, Usual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• . I did an interview earlier and somebody asked me if I [knew I] was onto something back when I was first writing. I said, "Yeah. I always thought I was good." We're not the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or AC/DC. But Helmet always sounded like Helmet, and we sort of developed our own sound. There's a vocabulary that's kind of universal now that's very simple. My friendDavid Sims, [the bassist] in Jesus Lizard, said, "I wish I'd thought of it." When you first hear it, it's like, "Oh duh." But that's cool.

  Page Hamilton

  Jesus, Writing, Simple

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