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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
Mike D
You
Interview
Know
Most
Just
Want
Us
Why
Bio
Basically
Need
The show that defined 'M*A*S*H' was the original interview episode with Clete Roberts. That was a way to look into these peoples' lives and investigate their situation, their feelings being away from home on an intimate level.
Mike Farrell
Home
People
Feelings
Situation
Interview
Intimate
Way
Defined
Investigate
Look
Roberts
Being
Episode
Show
Original
Away
Lives
Level
Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.
Mike Posner
Music
People
Inspire
Interview
Say
Scared
Who
Now
Tons
Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
Mo Rocca
People
Comedy
Honestly
Interview
Interviews
Out
Lied
About
Never
Comedy Central
Because
Pass
Came
Were
Subjects
Get
Just
Wanted
Stories
Central
Who
Aware
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.
Moby
Myself
Exaggeration
Christ
Tea
Christian
Interview
Like
Although
Did
Wherein
Which
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
Morley Safer
You
Interview
Spencer
Spencer Tracy
Rule
Respected
Alive
Only
She
Tracy
Still
Discuss
Did
Ground
Hepburn
Widow
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.
Nancy Gibbs
You
Presidency
President
Interview
About
Write
Written
Exciting
Know
Obviously
Lot
Get
I am blessed to be doing what I do. So if I have to be at a photo shoot, do an interview, or make a TV appearance, I am not going to sit around whining and complaining about how I don't want to get up early or I don't feel like talking.
Ne-Yo
Complaining
Blessed
Sit
Interview
Photo
Photo Shoot
TV
About
Feel
Like
Make
Talking
Around
How
Am
Doing
Up
Get
Shoot
Going
Want
Whining
Appearance
Early
I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.
Neil Strauss
Truth
You
Truth Is
Honesty
People
Made
Interview
More
Stuff
Know
Also
Up
Than
Interesting
Connect
Need
Honest
'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
Nelsan Ellis
Interview
Favorite
Vampire
London
All-Time
Also
Werewolf
American
Loved
I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.
Nick Bantock
Book
Three
Young
Interview
Way
Kids
Given
Never
Had
Read
Another
Doing
Child
Trying
Young Kids
Public
Produce
Next
Raise
Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
Nick Davies
Shoes
Imagination
Interview
Put
Person
Reporters
Want
Themselves
Really
Use
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
Nikki Sixx
Conversation
People
White
Bass
Interview
About
Talk
Sound
Want
McCartney
Paul
Paul McCartney
Album
The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
Nina Blackwood
Interview
Frank
Worst
Frank Zappa
Done
Zappa
Ever
Hardest
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.
Noah Baumbach
School
Walk
Job
Building
Think
Interview
Summer
High
High School
About
Had
New
Always
Still
Get
York
New York
Why
Actually
Rejected
I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.
Oliver Sim
World
Remember
Reading
Band
Interview
Adele
Must
Touring
Like
She
Said
Hired
Just
Where
Really
Her
Thing
Imagine
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
Omar Sharif
People
Giving
Live
Every
Thinking
Interview
Totally
About
Talking
Intensely
Want
Moment
Even
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Orson Welles
Art
Best
Made
Addiction
Interview
Despite
Like
French
Art Form
Form
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
Otto Penzler
Before
Interview
Hopes
Inside
Something
Mystery
Writer
Head
Know
Learn
Read
Hear
Get
Ed Sheeran is a good mate of mine, and he just flies around the place doing every single bit of promo or gig or interview, and it's no wonder that when you combine that with immense talent that he's playing in stadiums and arenas around the world.
Passenger
Good
You
World
Single
Every
Interview
Mine
Bit
Immense
Gig
Promo
Arenas
No Wonder
He
Combine
Talent
Ed Sheeran
Around
Mate
Doing
Wonder
Just
Stadiums
Place
Flies
Playing
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
Patrick Ewing
Interview
Seven
Something
Had
Head
Wrong
Doing
Been
Years
Coaching
Now
Assistant
A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.
Paula Broadwell
Me
Few
Research
Interview
Ran
Months
Run
Visits
General
Potomac
Could
River
Leading
Invited
Along
Him
Go
Command
His
Central
While
Then
Team
Figured
Who
Washington
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
Peggy Noonan
Conservative
Political
Nothing
Liberal
Interview
Shares
Wrong
Conducting
Being
Your
Figure
Views
Who
Sympathetic
Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.
Pete Hamill
Truth
You
Lie
People
Face
Every
Interview
Elusive
Interviews
Diligently
Perform
Calculated
Said
Always
Making
Fit
Taping
Reporter
Script
Public
Skepticism
Notes
Public Figures
Figures
Alas
I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.
Pete Rose
Me
Interview
About
Guys
Records
Talking
Get
Accused
Them
Ask
Who
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.
Peter Berg
Experience
Smart
Girl
First
Interview
Eye
Rihanna
About
Brown
Poised
Obviously
She
Talked
Caught
Diane
Very
Articulate
Did
Where
After
Who
Incident
Traumatic
Chris
Chris Brown
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