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“In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?”

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Author:Susan Cain

“MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.”

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Author:Carson Daly

“I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.”

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Author:Rila Fukushima

“In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.”

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Author:Brian Austin Green

“I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.”

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Author:Michel Gondry

“Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?”

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Author:Monica Ali

“Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.”

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Author:Sade Adu

“I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.”

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Author:Sean Astin

“It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?”

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Author:Emily Browning

“I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.”

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Author:Tom Araya

“When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.”

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Author:Nina Garcia

“I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.”

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Author:Calvin Harris

“I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.”

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Author:Nicholas Hoult

“Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.”

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Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.”

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Author:Bianca Jagger

“There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.”

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Author:Bill James

“What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.”

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Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.”

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Author:Bob Kane

“Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.”

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Author:Kathryn Minshew

“I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.”

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Author:Bruce Forsyth

“Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.”

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Author:Bruce Forsyth

“A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.”

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Author:David E. Kelley

“I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.”

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Author:Gary Kemp

“Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.”

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Author:Gary Kemp