“My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?” FirstsIdeasProcessPhotographySurpriseRefuseReactionsInterviewsCommentSpontaneous Author:Marc Riboud
“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” HumansWomenGreaterDoctorsMedicalMemorableInterviewsTranquilityHuman ExperienceDegradation Author:Alice James
“People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'” PeopleThinkingAskingAffairInterviewsForeign Affairs Author:Dolly Parton
“In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.” TryingLooksStillsFactsJobsLastsRememberHouseWhiteFiguresPositionOkayInterviewsHospitalsWhite HouseSeniorMaternityBabysittingMaternity Leave Author:Michelle Obama
“Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?” WaySaidWarLawYoungCoursesFourBrotherHusbandBrokeJournalistInterviewsMy HusbandIn-lawsBrother In Law Author:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
“There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldFirstsLittlesPlayJobsInformationShameAngryImpressionReleaseInterviewsChestsGoogleFirst ImpressionJob Interview Author:Patrick Stump
“If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.” IfsStillsPlayBigsSchoolRolesCuttingFineActivityInterviewsGradesNeglectEmployersGrades In SchoolInternships Author:Grover Cleveland
“I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.” FeelsWritingHateSongComfortableI HateProfessionInterviewsWriting Songs Author:Van Morrison
“There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.” PeopleTurnsTalkingInterviewsHanging Out Author:Meredith Brooks
“Well, we have to realize the truth about the person who is a hip-hop insider. Most of these people are not really insiders. They are people who are chosen to do an interview and they will make a statement and say that they are a part of the hip-hop culture, but from an intellectual standpoint, they are not very sharp, because back in '1990..'91 one would criticize somebody for doing one type of commercial and say that's not real hip-hop and then another rapper turns around and sell them malt liquor and say that's real hip hop.” PeopleWellsPersonsRealTurnsCultureRealizingTypeIntellectualSellsHip HopStatementsChosenHipsInterviewsHopsCriticizeRapperLiquorStandpointInsidersMalt Author:MC Hammer
“Interviewers have to be work really hard to be good. They¹re more inclined to be bad. Generally, they can go either way, but interviewing on a whole isn¹t such a useful thing. I¹m not a big fan of (interviews), really.” WayHardWholeBigsFansBe GoodInterviewsInterviewersUseful Things Author:Ben Lee
“I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.” TelevisionQuietPerformancesCamerasInterviews Author:Ben Heppner
“I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.” UsedStrangeInterviews Author:Alex Parks
“I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.” IfsThinkingYearsMadeEndsEnoughWholeChoicesProcessHellNiceCoupleMetsLuckyElementsLet MeLike MeBest ThingsKicksInterviewsMusic BusinessPubsGreat ExperiencesBurnt OutFalseness Author:Rick Astley
“I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum.” ShowsRadioInterviewsSpectrumSatellitesSirius Author:Edwin McCain
“It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.” PeopleYearsHumansDifferentKidsRememberYoungNaturalDealsHappenedHuman NatureOne DayCome UpHearingInterviewsLeaving MeSmall ThingsMe AloneNatural ThingsLeave Me Alone Author:Michael Buble
“Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... .” GivingIssuesPerspectiveScientistClimateInterviewsLayman Author:Myron Ebell
“I really like John Legend as an artist and as a person. As well as Lyfe Jennings. Jeezy is good people as well. I like to interview Nick Cannon. He always has something interesting to say. I still enjoy talking to Jay-Z or Nas which was weird since we had so much history. I also enjoyed talking to the Mayor of Detroit as politicians because they need to hear the hip hop side of the community that they don't hear from on a regular basis.” PeopleNeedsWellsPersonsStillsArtistEnjoySidesCommunityInterestingTalkingPoliticianBasesHip HopEnjoyedHipsInterviewsHopsLegendsGood PeopleMayorsDetroitCannonsSomething Interesting Author:MC Serch
“I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.” ThinkingReadingLaughingStreetsChildhoodTaughtDadConcernedRadioInterviewsWeekendMumTruckLove Of ReadingRad Author:Brooke Fraser
“It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York]” New YorkInterviewsMtvDarren Author:Darren Hayes
“I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.” ThinkingPlayUseBigsEmotionalSeriousJokesPracticalsReputationInterviewsBeing RealPractical Joke Author:Darren Hayes
“When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantWellsRealEnoughPlayFoundFeltStepsBandMembersPressesRadioInterviewsAuditionsSpotlightSingle StepRadio PlaysBand Members Author:Andy Bell
“We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews. But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.” MenNeedsBigsUnderstandingAcceptingRolesLaughingKnowingTeamQuietBandMake SenseInterviewsDiverse Author:Robbie Merrill
“. 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.” IfsWritingFirstsKindSaidJesusWishSoundSimpleUniversalYeahInterviewsVocabularyBack WhenHelmetZeppelinsLizardsDuhSimsBassists Author:Page Hamilton
“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.” GivingShouldWellsI CanSchoolFoundTeacherFiguresPositionMembersInterviewsContributionStringsComposerCommitteesSurveillanceMusic BusinessTransmitPosition Of PowerYardsticks Author:Mauricio Kagel
“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.” SaidFactsSocialPresidentLeaderWallInterviewsContractsJournalCentral BanksSocial ContractMario Author:Noam Chomsky
“Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.” NeedsDoneFilmFormTurnsProcessSubjectsSickFilledTiredScriptsFinishedBunchShootingObsessedInterviewsTreatmentGrantsApplicationCompositionEditingUnitsSchedulesAuditionsCastingFestivalsSessionCircuitsConvertingSo SickFilm FestivalsFilled Out Author:Guy Maddin
“A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.” WantSometimesThreeHoursFourPagesPhonesInterviewsScribbles Author:Wayne Coyne
“During the game, we never sit down. Not only is there action on the field, but we also have to cover the half-time show and interview all the celebrities attending. But once it's all over, it's a pretty satisfying feeling. My team and I love delivering an exciting and all-encompassing story the next day for our viewers. We want them to see and experience all that we did.” WantStoriesShowsFeelingsActionNextGamesHalfTeamFieldsExcitingInterviewsOver ItSatisfyingViewersNext DayDeliveringAttendingHalf Time Author:Megan Alexander
“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.” TryingStillsDoneMotherGuyFoundFatherTalkingNiceFiguresYeahMy FavoriteRadioExpectedEnjoyedExtrasInterviewsShockThis DayShockingHandsomeReally NicePuppetsMother And FatherNice GuyJocksEndearingFaveElmo Author:Wendy Williams
“But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.” GivingPersonsDifferentSeemsInterviews Author:PJ Harvey
“I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.” WayWritingHappenedInterviews Author:PJ Harvey
“I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.” WayPayAttentionToo MuchMy WayInterviews Author:PJ Harvey
“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.” SongDecisionResponsibilityBandMembersGuitarInterviewsCobainBusiness Decisions Author:Courtney Love
“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.” PeopleWellsShowsFoundHappenedMediaPersonalityNewsInterviewsAmusing Author:Ben Stein
“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.” GivingAnswersOne DayMagazinesInterviewsOuch Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.” WorldSaidWarLastsStrongEconomyWeekWorstTvsCrisisFundamentalsCampaignsWar Of The WorldsInterviewsAdsWorld War IiWorld War IMccainSuspendedSurrogates Author:Bill Maher
“During an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday, Sarah Palin says she is not opposed to gay people, adding 'One of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her dearly and she doesn't exist.'” PeopleYearsHappensLastsGayAbsolutesInterviewsGay PeoplePalinTuesdayKatie Author:Amy Poehler
“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.'” LooksMayShowsBeautifulViewsYeahInterviewsLiarsHostAccusedMccainYou Look Beautiful Author:Conan O'Brien
“I watched that new reality show on ABC with Charlie Gibson, 'America's Next Top Vice President.' ... Oh, what an exciting show that is! Did you see Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson? Did you all watch that? In fact, John McCain was watching it at home, and at one point, he turned to his wife and said, 'She looks really familiar.'” LooksSaidFactsShowsHomeRealityAmericaNextPresidentWatchesWifeExcitingVicesFamiliarInterviewsCharlieVice PresidentMccainPalinReality Shows Author:Jay Leno
“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.'” SaidShowsKidsEasyAdviceConversationInterviewsFrostBest AdviceTalk ShowsClipboards Author:Dick Cavett
“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.” WorldHumansShowsRealityGovernmentAmericaRightsTeamPoliceHuman RightsReality Of LifeInterviewsKoreaViolationNorth KoreaTeam America Author:Jennifer Armintrout
“No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensPlayWholeTogetherAmericaPastNationsPresidentPiecesStyleFiguresNewsSeriesVicesJournalistInterviewsAddressesFriendlyEntityConferencesVice PresidentGreat NationsEntirety Author:Peggy Noonan
“I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.” WayStruggleHavensBabyHarderMotherhoodInstanceI've LearnedInterviewsThrownCake Author:Eva Mendes
“In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take.” SaidSexHoursCitiesInterviewsIsisKim Author:Conan O'Brien
“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.” TrumpNewsInterviewsUsualFoxesSoftballVulgarityFox NewsInterviewersYiddishVulgarity Is Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“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.” WantGivingI CanGuyNiceMediaNewspapersInterviewsNice Guy Author:Dabo Swinney
“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.” PeopleGivingBelieveJobsRoomsGiving UpAssumingInterviewsNailsQualifiedHypeHiring Author:Nicole Williams
“Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.” PeoplePoorWeakStaringInterviewsBlankAmazedUnderestimatePostureHandshakeNonverbalBlank Stares Author:Nicole Williams
“I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've been asked everything. And I always give answers. I don't shy away from anything.” GivingBookAnswersFansCuriousInterviewsShyOpen Book Author:Kevin Hart