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• I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

  Goldie

  Religious, People, Joy

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• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Long, Three, Pieces

  "'This American Life,' en Español". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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• The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.

  William Faulkner

  Trying, Different, Answers

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had to be cut to fit the allotted time. I am happy to provide this elaboration to correct the record.

  Jack Miles

  Cutting, Records, Radio

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• Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crazy, Character, Writing

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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• I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

  Michael Madsen

  Years, Lessons, I've Learned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

  Giovanna Cau

  Giving, World, Dignity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

  Scott Raab

  Smart, Cocky, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews!

  Lou Ferrigno

  Two, People, Work Out

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• I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

  Pamela Anderson

  Fun, Ignorance, People

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• I find the whole concept of being 'SEXY' embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me- dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini skirt, BUT THATS NOT ME. I feel uncomfortable. I'd never go out in a mini skirt. Personally, I don't actually think it's even that sexy. Whats sexy about saying, 'I'm here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I've got?' My idea of sexy is that less is more. The LESS you reveal the MORE people can wonder.

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Hair

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• I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.

  Siegfried Woldhek

  Book, Drawing, Years

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• I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.

  Angelina Jolie

  Focus, Unhappy, Purpose

  "Angelina Jolie Dies for Our Sins" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. July 20, 2010.

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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Growing Up, Home, Childhood

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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• Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

  Stewart Brand

  Views, Answers, Honest

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.243, Penguin

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• Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"

  Steven Morrissey

  Song, America, Labels

  Radio Interview with Janice Long, 2002.

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• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  Christina Aguilera

  Faces, Found, Force

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Cutting, Thinking

  "CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "". Interview, www.mediamatters.org. November 15, 2006.

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

  David E. Hoffman

  Different, Complicated, Persons

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.

  Kitty Kelley

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  "Kitty Kelley discusses Oprah bio". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

  Scott Pelley

  Always Trying, Interesting, Impossible

  "Scott Pelley Slams Fox News Over Mark Owen Reveal, Wants to Interview the Pope". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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