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“When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.”

Writing Song Process Musician Twenties Finished Interviews

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?”

Thinking Writing Trying Said Sometimes Hands Kids School Asks Answers Wonderful Goes On One Day Newspapers Ask Me Interviews Yes Or No

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff

“Live interviews are more difficult to distort.”

Difficult Interviews

Author:Bianca Jagger

“No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.”

Matter Talking Interviews

Author:Julian Casablancas

“We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.”

People Shows Wanted Together Artist Guy Four Groups Involved Variety Interviews Guests Format

Author:Davy Jones

“People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.”

People Ifs Thinking Hate I Hate Interviews

Author:Victoria Wood

“Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.”

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Author:Mary Katharine Ham

“I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.”

Turns Interviews Request

Author:Bob Ross

“I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.”

Done Results Interviews Google Website Clicks Visitors

Author:Chris Ducker

“Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.”

Mind Firsts Interviews

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.”

Water Drink Spring Beer Interviews Whisky Spring Water

Author:Brad Delson

“Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.”

Feels Sometimes Presses Mess Dirty Interviews Frustrating

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.”

People Want Bigs Asks Media Fronts Eating Ask Me Interviews Temples Friendly

Author:Preity Zinta

“The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.”

Ifs Feels Writing Home Able Literature Loss Esteem Awful Novelists Interviews Preparing Businessman Suicidal

Book:The Living Novel

Source: The Living Novel

“The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!”

Ifs Would Be Deals Imagine Trouble Policy Politician Sentences Interviews

Author:Roland Barthes

“The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.”

Way Persons Interviews

Author:Ken Burns

“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.”

Interviews

Author:Martin Amis

“Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.”

People Kind Made Sometimes Fun Stuff Conversation Appearance Interviews Photo Shoots Good Conversation

Author:Fiona Apple

“People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.”

People Today Effects Revolution Needed Aids Communism Journalist Interviews

Book:Hammer

Source: Hammer

“I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.”

“I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.”

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Author:Kitty Kelley

“I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.”

Giving Feels I Can Helping Actors Boring Interviews Notorious

Author:Rock Hudson

“Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.”

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Author:Graham Chapman

“How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?”

Ifs Names Knowing Feet Interviews

Author:Trevor McDonald

“My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.”

Thinking Problem Next One Thing One Day Opposites Interviews Next Day

Author:Skeet Ulrich

“Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.”

Knows Hate I Hate Boring Interviews

Author:Chris O'Donnell

“For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.”

People Ifs Should Wells Faces Principles Benefits Prepared Interviews Be Prepared Broadcasters

Author:Evan Davis

“When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.”

World Stories Stuff Interest Interesting Magazines Teenager Interviews Most Interesting Playboy

Author:Chester Brown

“I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.”

Opportunity Interviews Turned Down Adolph Hitler

Author:Dorothy Kilgallen

“Ah, I don't do interviews, really.”

Interviews

Author:Joe Pesci

“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.”

Thinking Giving Important Sometimes Stories Sports Paper Sells Come Up Interviews Papers

Author:Martina Hingis

“I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.”

Years Havens Seven Coaching Interviews Seven Years Assistants

Author:Patrick Ewing

“Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.”

Might Scary Interviews Jagger

Author:Alexa Chung

“If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.”

Ifs Want Interviews Palin

Author:Megyn Kelly

“I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.”

Ends Voice Losing Interviews

Author:Grace Jones

“Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.”

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Author:Michael Azerrad

“I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.”

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Author:Rick Bragg

“I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.”

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Author:Clint Black

“I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.”

People Knows Trying Lying Interviews Articles Amused

Author:James Blunt

“Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.”

Feels Wells Real Serious Fortunate Therapy Interviews

Author:James Blunt

“I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.”

Firsts Done Political Process Opinion Interviews

Author:Jenna Bush

“I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.”

Feels Process Planes Interviews

Author:Meredith Brooks

“There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.”

Has Beens Remember Asks Yesterday Ask Me Interviews

Author:Otis Blackwell

“What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.”

Firsts Eye Girl Smart Caught Interviews Brown Incidents Traumatic Experiences Sawyer Smart Girl

Author:Peter Berg

“I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.”

Giving Ideas Loses Interviews Giving In

Author:Raul Castro

“In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.”

People Feels Bits Sea Fronts Hollywood Interviews March Up And Down Publicists

Author:Alejandro Amenabar

“I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.”

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Author:Tyson Chandler

“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.”

People Trying Littles Persons Night Bits Four Week Share Strange Little Bit Towns Dinner Interviews Small Town

Author:John Corbett

“I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.”

Want Looks Able Grows Growing Up Producers Fortunate Interviews

Author:Shaun Cassidy

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