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“And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.”

Proud Victory Defeat Interviews Compliment

Book:Jack Nicklaus

Source: Jack Nicklaus

“Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.”

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Author:Graham Norton

“I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“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.”

Language Degrees Weakness Interviews Biology Foreign Language Birmingham

Author:Paul Nurse

“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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Author:Robert Pattinson

“Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.”

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Author:Sam Peckinpah

“I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, "Isn't this great?" or "Can you believe?" And I would react, like, "No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment."”

People Believe I Can Moments Interviews Live In The Present

Author:Katy Perry

“I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.”

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Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.”

Stills I Can Song Direct Interviews Explaining

Author:Adele

“My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.”

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Author:Katie Price

“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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Author:Keanu Reeves

“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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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?”

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Author:Anne Rice

“In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?”

Next Literature Taken Finals Interviews Our Future

Book:Anchorwoman

Source: Anchorwoman

“In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.”

Children Jobs Social Marriage Careers Interviews

Author:Jessica Savitch

“An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.”

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Author:Diane Sawyer

“It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.”

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Author:Maria Sharapova

“I often conduct interviews in my truck.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.”

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Author:William Shatner

“My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.”

Way Jobs Interviews

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

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Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“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.”

Ifs Waiting Wings Interviews

Author:Robert Smith

“The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.”

Reason Song Interviews

Author:Bjork

“There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.”

Believe Spirit Bits Interviews Stereotype

Author:Bjork

“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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Author:Lewis Black

“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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Author:Lewis Black

“I decided I would never do interviews again.”

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Author:Danielle Steel

“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.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“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.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“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.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“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.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.”

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Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.”

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Author:Daniel Tammet

“You have to do a show, an interview, you've got to go straight back on the road to another location, make a track and edit things like footage etc. It's non stop. I really respect the hustle and work rate of Chipmunk, as well as N-Dubz and Tinchy Stryder.”

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Author:Tinie Tempah

“My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”

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Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.”

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Author:Emily Blunt

“In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.”

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Author:Ville Valo

“You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.”

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Author:Johnny Vegas

“I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.”

Interviews Youtube Drummer

Author:St. Vincent

“I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.”

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Author:Mike Wallace

“I always do my interviews face to face.”

Faces Interviews Face To Face

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.”

Art Made Form Addiction Despite Interviews Interviewers Triads

Author:Orson Welles

“A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.”

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Author:Donald E. Westlake

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