Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Interview Quotes from famous persons: Kristen Welker, Aubrey O’Day, Hugh Grant, Pete Rose, Edward G. Robinson. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Interview Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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You have to be essentially ready to interview the President every day that you walk in, at any moment.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.
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It is the little things that throw me – the wrong pen, the wrong font. An interview done standing up is a disaster. I need my knees to rest notes on.
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I like getting to the meat of things. You can’t get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
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I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions.
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I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, ‘The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.’ They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I’m just always trying to do that.
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I would try to promote something that I loved, and the entire interview would be about my personal life. I would leave a room feeling defeated, feeling embarrassed, but I would always make sure to put that smile on my face because I wasn’t going to let them get to me.
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I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn’t cheap.
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I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.
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I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it’s during a performance, practice, or doing an interview.
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With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it’s like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.
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The ‘National Suit Drive’ collects gently used professional attire, but what it’s really collecting is inspiration and a chance for men to feel empowered as they head into their next job interview.
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For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, ‘I’d like to interview you,’ who am I to say no, when I spend all my days going, ‘Hello, you don’t know me. I’d like to ask you some questions. Do you have a little time?’
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I’m not a very good interview, usually.
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Sometimes I wouldn’t give an interview because I didn’t have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don’t think is always true, but they have to sell papers.
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I didn’t have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn’t even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn’t understand what I did wrong on those job applications.
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An interview is about mutual selection.
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Had it not been for ‘The Apprentice‘ and Donald Trump, I wouldn’t have met my wife through an interview with ‘E! News.’
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
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In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
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There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.
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I would love to interview Sean Spicer.
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I don’t talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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One of the most important things, especially when you’re leaving school, is to realize you’re going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you’re in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don’t do it.
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I’d love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.
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You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.
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My favorite interview question is, ‘If you could have a superpower, what would it be?’
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Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don’t in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we’ve forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
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Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you’re a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you’re a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you’re going to get at it. Acting’s no different.
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I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, ‘Did you see that?’
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
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The literary interview won’t tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
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My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.
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I’d love to interview Hillary and Bill Clinton together and ask them about their dynamic partnership.
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I’ve always been able to hear and read what I say before I say it. That’s why I’m a good quote. Or a good interview. If I say something that’s uncomfortable for someone’s ears, it’s going to be the truth; I just happen to voice it. But it’s the truth. It’s not my opinion.
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I will not be doing an interview with Sean Hannity.
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I don’t mind anyone asking me any questions, I’ve got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that’s what I call an interview.
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‘What is your desired salary?’ The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.
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Celebrity poverty, that’s the hidden scandal in Blair‘s Britain. You can’t help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.
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In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author’s photograph on the back flap.
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When I left the club, I said in an interview that my chapter with Borussia Dortmund was not over. I just wanted to realize my dream of playing in the Premier League.
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The truth of the matter is, when you’re on ‘Howard Stern,’ you feel like you’re in his living room talking to him, you don’t feel like you’re having an interview.
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Just doing any kind of work – even an interview for breakfast television – makes me feel happy.
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My dad didn’t know that I had an eating disorder. He had no idea, so that was weird. I was in an interview and just said it accidentally. I called my dad because I remember thinking, ‘My dad does not know that,’ and he was surprised. I think he understood, though.
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No matter who I’m talking to, I always talk like I’m doing an interview.
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I’m not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It’s a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I’m not it. It doesn’t play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.
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If you’re doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you’re not going to have a relationship with them, they’re not going to like you, they’re not going to be your friend.
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A lot of times the interview relies not so much on the interviewee, but on the interviewer.
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It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don’t have time to conduct. It’s what we do.
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It’s impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.
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I don’t think it is very polite and respectful asking someone out during an interview.
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I like to do an interview when the other person isn’t expecting it. I find it’s more spontaneous.
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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.
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I didn’t really have an idea that Montreal was a possibility. They were pretty tough at the combine, I remember that. It was definitely the toughest interview that I had.
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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.
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I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.
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Most hiring managers interview a lot of people. So many that they generally have to go back to their notes to remember candidates – the exception being candidates with a strong hook. Sometimes these hooks are how people dress or their personality, but the best hook is a strong story that’s work-related.
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There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It’s still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn’t get it.
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When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they’ll say the magic thing that you’d been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don’t be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.
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It’s very exciting to have this great opportunity to interview designers for PopSugar. This is certainly my first step toward making my debut in the fashion industry.
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If I got my hands on the Mueller report, the thing I’d want to see is what are the reasons why Barr made the conclusion about obstruction of justice that he did? Was it because of the facts? If so, why didn’t he try and interview Trump to learn all the facts?
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The fact that the Meghan and Harry interview was aired while Philip was in hospital did not trouble him. What did worry him was the couple‘s preoccupation with their own problems and their willingness to talk about them in public.
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When a Black man or woman shows up for a job interview or to work, they should never be judged based on their hairstyle. Their work product, commitment, dedication, and work ethic should be the sources of their success.
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Whether it’s a show or an interview, the way I look at it is that one day people might not want to interview me. So I want to enjoy this ride while I can.
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Really smart people don’t want to say stupid things, and they really don’t want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there’s no way you can’t do well.
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It’s easier to get people to talk to you if you’re a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.
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I think what’s universal is the idea of auditioning. It’s something that you do in every kind of job market. You audition every time you go on a date, you audition at a job interview, and it’s always about trying to put the best version of yourself forward and seeing what sticks and what doesn’t.
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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.
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It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview – and it can be polite – is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can’t be exactly sure what will be asked.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, ‘This is unbearable how I talk.’
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The most frightening interview I’ve ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
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Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best candidates will never make it to the interview.
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When somebody wants to interview me, I’ve always got something to say.
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DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I’ve been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don’t want to be answering questions about that.
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I’d like to interview Rita Ora – I think she’s really cool.
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I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, ‘Why do you want to go here?’ And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn’t have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.
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When I face the media, maybe I don’t feel it now, here with you, because it’s a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.
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If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
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Charles Barkley is always a good interview because he’s honest.
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I don’t think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren’t such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn’t given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.
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Before I ever endorse a candidate, I meet them, interview them, interview their colleagues and evaluate their competitors, study their positions and ideas, look at their campaign… then make a decision.
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We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.
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We’ve found that people crave a thoughtful exchange of ideas in a long-form interview, which is why the tradition that we have inherited from the original ‘Firing Line’ is relevant again. Our program has impacted the way the public understands our policymakers in Washington and beyond.
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There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
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The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.
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Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke’s chair. The only wrong answer is, ‘Who’s Bernanke?’.
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I don’t like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’
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Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I don’t mind anyone asking me any questions, I’ve got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is; that’s what I call an interview. I’m not someone who’s like ‘Right, you can’t ask this, that, this, that, this, that.’ It’s got to be a real interview. I’ve literally got nothing to hide.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don’t understand why people want to interview me.
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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.
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When you interview celebrities, they’re so guarded so many times, they can’t reveal anything.
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If you do an interview in 1960, something it’s bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn’t, then there’s something drastically wrong.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, ‘I went with him here, I went with him here.’
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If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean – words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.
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Sometimes, when I’m doing an interview, my delivery or my take on a story may lean a little feminine, depending on the story, but it’s never intentional.
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I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.
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No matter who I’m talking to, I always talk like I’m doing an interview.
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If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I’d be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It’s part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
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If you do anything with the Cowboys, there’s an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the ’90s. They want to interview me. I say, ‘Look, I’ve done it a million times. I’m just not interested. What’s left to tell?’
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From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
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The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
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I haven’t been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart – well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.
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And after my interview with the Bengals, I knew this was the job for me.
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I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.
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Everyone finds interviews nerve-wracking so try updating your interview outfit with some new accessories, such as a fabulous silk scarf, so you feel great and know that you look a million dollars, even if you’re feeling a little apprehensive.
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I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from ‘The Lion King’ – and it’s a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
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So many times in the middle of an interview I’ve had people say, ‘Can we go off the record?’
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I think people just, when you say something in an interview, they really like to make it their own story rather than, you know they like to spin it off, almost.
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I’m persistent. In the early ’60s, when I first started making the rounds in New York for theater work, I became more and more enraged every time I had an interview or audition that went nowhere, and became more determined. I haven’t lost that.
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I don’t really get nervous anymore unless there’s a big interview.
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After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
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This is going to sound ridiculous, but I read in an interview with Lil Wayne that he recorded a mixtape of something like 50 straight minutes of him rapping all of his material because he felt like he could never move on to the next phase of his musical exploration if he didn’t get it down on tape.
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My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
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Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It’s like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That’s some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.
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Rather than use the term ‘profiling,’ the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
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One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can’t interview someone of that stature.
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I don’t understand these politicians who want to be president and complain when they get a tough interview.
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I’m not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I’m very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I’m not that private, so it’s not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.
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I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I’d be bored, and I would call him. He’d interview me.
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The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of ‘The Interview’ are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.
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Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they’ll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.
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Everybody’s always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they’d rile me. I’d yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.
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In a way, I’d rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.
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By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
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In ‘Total Divas,’ our men are our garnish. In ‘Total Bellas,’ you finally get them in the interview chair, and you get to hear their perspective on the events going on. Fans will get to hear their point of view.
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Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet – completely sober.
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Every interview I do, it’s basically ‘how did he do it,’ and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she’s so picky.
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It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don’t really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I’m free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it’s, ‘Wow, that was brilliant,’ and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
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I’d love to interview Mark Cuban!
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Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
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You know what, I’d done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
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Helena Bonham Carter was 19 when we made ‘A Room with a View’. She came for the interview in these extraordinary boots and a black dress, and sat with her feet out in front of her.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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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.
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They say our lives are scripted in advance. We just play our part and fate intervenes in mysterious ways to ensure that no one deviates from the script. It was a wrong date of birth on my CISF interview call later that led me to my taking the train journey that changed the course of my life forever.
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My biggest problem in my life is I’m cheap and I didn’t hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.
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I don’t roll like that but I’ve never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that’s good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that’s a little disturbing.
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The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There’s always something better to do, like I’ve got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There’s always something better to do. Going to a writer’s club?
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Once, in an interview with ‘V’ magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.
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It was almost like I was in the army: school, work, homework, fly to New York, get in at 2 in the morning, do a morning show at 5 A.M., then another one at 7, then a radio interview at 10, you know?
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there’s a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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As you probably know, I’ve written a lot about the presidency, so it’s obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Whomever you’re going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
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What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It’s a lovely dream, but it’s the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You’d need a lot more than an interview to go into it!
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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.
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I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I’m important.
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As a footballer, it can be enjoyable to do a proper interview where you trust the journalist to reproduce your thoughts.
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you’re dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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At first, when my agent told me, ‘They want you to do an interview, a piece for ’60 Minutes,’ I was like, ‘What is ’60 Minutes?”
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You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of ‘Newsweek.’ It still has a great deal of impact.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information – about how we feel about ourselves, how we’d like to feel about ourselves, and what we’d like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I’m going to deal with you in a really different way.
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So much about ‘Rookie‘ has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work – sometimes I’m just so happy; it’s so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.
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On my podcast, I got to interview Will Ferrell, Sam Hunt, Colin Cowherd – all these different names – and it was just really cool to be able to talk to those people about things that weren’t everyday life for me, which is football.
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There’s a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has, more or less, with President Trump.
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It’s funny, when you speak with ‘New York’ you never know which way they are going to go. They sorta walk that middle road where you don’t know if your interview is going to go good or bad.
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With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.
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It’s unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
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‘Space finder’ is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it’s followed me ever since.
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At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I’m interviewing so that they feel comfortable enough to open up and share their story with me.
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There aren’t that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they’re doing Interview with the Vampire’ on Hulu, so there’s all these good jobs.
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I would love to get Chief Justice John Roberts for an interview. I think that would be fascinating, I think that Supreme Court nominees should do more interviews.
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One of the main things I said in my job interview was that I want to develop female coaches.
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You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It’s the Crispian Mills Syndrome.
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Really smart people don’t want to say stupid things, and they really don’t want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there’s no way you can’t do well.
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I once got asked in an interview: ‘Does it annoy you that the majority of your fans are teenage girls?’ I was insulted and angry because it was sexist and ageist.
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
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If he hadn’t done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn’t be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.
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I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.
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I’m probably the worst person for ‘Men’s Health’ to interview.
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I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.
