Interviews Quotes - Page 20

• This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

  Selena Gomez

  Jobs, Makeup, Hair

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• The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Stories, Noon

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• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  Zaha Hadid

  Mean, America, Different

  "One on one with Zaha Hadid". Interview with Stephanie Mehta, fortune.com. June 25, 2013.

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• It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

  John Hawkes

  Talking, Odd, Worried

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• I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

  Chris Hemsworth

  School, Pumps, Gigs

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• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Profound

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. Chapter: "Painting and Culture", p. 58, 1948.

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• You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Talking, People

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

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• I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

  Davy Jones

  Newspapers, Reluctant, Mislead

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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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• I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Heartbroken, Faults, Honest

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• As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Real, Actors, Mystery

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• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  Artie Lange

  Insulting, Sound, Want

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

  Taylor Lautner

  Legs, Knees, Restless

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• No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

  Avril Lavigne

  Media, Talking, Want

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• I picked up an issue of 'Cosmopolitan' the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, "I need to get better at interviews." The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, "I do that every day."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Jobs, Hate, Issues

  Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

  Jim Lehrer

  Technique, Answers, Matter

  "PBS's Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

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• All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Spend Time

  "If you don't succeed as a writer, be glad" by Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2008.

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• When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

  Doris Lessing

  Looks, Television, Profile

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• Actors should never give interviews.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Giving, Actors, Should

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• I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

  John Lydon

  Philosophy, Mind, Different

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• Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

  John Lydon

  Years, Cynical, Television

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• Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

  Simon Mainwaring

  Jobs, Divorce, Media

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• When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

  Shirley Manson

  Trying, Straightforward, Ask Me

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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