Interviews Quotes - Page 18

• Giving something back is a huge deal. You'll notice every successful athlete uses that at some point in his career during an interview. "I'm gonna give something back. Gotta give something back to the community." "Yaaaay! Right on!" People just fall for it. It's a necessary inclusion.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fall, Athlete, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

  Catherine Camus

  Usa, Literature, Next

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

  Robin Roberts

  Running, Absurdity Of Life, Careers

  "Robin Roberts MDS: ‘GMA’ Co-Host Announces She Has Bone Marrow" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Jobs, Book

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• This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

  Ryan White

  Media, News, Tvs

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• I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Distance, Party

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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• I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

  Tony Judt

  Writing, Ideas, Done

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• I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Talking, Games

  "Anna Kendrick Talks PITCH PERFECT, Singing Live on Set, Interacting More on Twitter, Her Love of Reddit, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

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• My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

  Alan King

  Mother, Giving, House

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• If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

  Robert Smith

  Wings, Waiting, Ifs

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• Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Long, Littles, Path

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• I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

  Kristen Stewart

  Birthday, Strong, Self

  "Kristen Stewart interview: vampire's girl turns rock rebel". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 20, 2010.

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• It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

  Kristen Stewart

  Trying, Looks, Impossible

  "Kristen Stewart Interview: Vampire's Girl Turns Rock Rebel". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 29, 2010.

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• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Thinking, People

  "Charlize Theron And Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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