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One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
james joyce— "A Painful Case"
It was somewhere between the interview with the Indian entrepreneur who wanted to do my taxes from Bangalore and the one who wanted to write my software from Bangalore, and the one who wanted to read my x-rays from Bangalore, and the one who wanted to trace my lost luggage from Bangalore...I was realizing that, while I had been sleeping, while I had been off covering the 9/11 wars, I had missed something really fundamental in this globalization story. I had lost the thread, and I found it in Bangalore.
— Thomas Friedman, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century".
Let me say this very slowly indeed. Watch my lips: no selection by examination or interview under a Labour Government.
David Blunkett— 1995 Speech at the Labour Party Conference, 5 Oct.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James— 1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.
I once said in an interview that every word she writes is a lie, including 'and'and 'the'.
Joseph McCarthy— 1980 In response to Lillian Hellman's memoir, Scoundrel Time, in the NewYork Times,16 Feb.
Some time ago, in an interview that turned towards the Theatre, I suggested that 'Pubic hair is not an adequate substitute for wit'. My point now is that depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult.
— 1974 Outcries and Asides,'Danger of ShockTactics'.
In a recent interview, I was asked what, above all, I associated with socialism inthismodernage.Ianswered that if there was one word I would use to identify modern socialism, it was 'Science'.
— 1967 Speech,17 Jun.
Because it doesn't happen like this, where we're having an interview and it sort of turns into a conversation--and a quite gratifying one, because it's all about me.
paul bettany— Interview
"Don't you know that every time we meet the thoughts of the final parting will become more painful? Don't you feel that every interview makes us dearer to each other than the last?"
anne brontë— Helen to Gilbert (Ch. XLV : Raconsiliation)
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
gordon brown— Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary, Philip Webster, "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite", The Times, 26 May 2000, p. 1.
— Speech at a Trade Union Congress meeting, 25 May 2000.
By the end of the interview, I pluck up the courage to ask Susannah whether she thinks my bra fits. She stares at my chest: "You’re wearing a 34C and you should be in a 32DD." I get home and check. She’s right.
susannah constantine— Fiona Neill in "Retail therapists" in The Times (July 14 2007)
"Absolutely none. But rather more than the BBC do. We could have had this interview in England a couple of years ago, although I wouldn’t have met with such hatred that I’m getting from your questions, and frankly I’ve had enough of this interview. Goodbye."
nigel farage— During a phone call on BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio show (regarding the incident in Edinburgh), in which an angry Nigel Farage hung up after stating that the interview was unpleasant and offensive, 17 May 2013.
— 'Scottish nationalists are fascist scum': Farage rages against pub protesters before hanging up on BBC for 'hate' filled interview.
... and if you want to hear more of that interview, fly to America and watch TV on Sunday night.
eddie mair— Mair (2003) cited in: "Eddie Mair again" in: The Daily Grind, Jonathan Sanderson’s weblog June 5, 2003
Robespierre listened to me with terror. He grew pale and silent for some time. This interview confirmed me in the opinion that I always had of him, that he unites the knowledge of a wise senator with the integrity of a thoroughly good man and the zeal of a true patriot but that he is lacking as a statesman in clearness of vision and determination.
jean-paul marat— L'Ami du peuple, vol. 7, p. 3965
I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.
david miscavige— June 2009 letter by Miscavige to journalists Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, regarding investigation of accounts of abuse of Scientology staff members by Miscavige for "The Truth Rundown" series in the St. Petersburg Times —Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin (June 23, 2009). A letter from David Miscavige. St Petersburg Times. Retrieved on 2010-07-03.
sometimes when i do an interview, the journalist asks about political and social issues. i rarely answer those types of questions because i would rather a fan or reader get their information from the actual source, not from me. global warming is not a political issue--it's a moral issue. do we care that, according to overwhelming information, we are doing some careless, powerfully bad things to the environment? figure it out yourself: Climate Changethanks for listening. -m
mike shinoda— LP/FM MB 2006
Redemption, he says: that's what this book and all the others are really about. His favourite interview was with CP Ellis, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who ended up fighting for the union rights of black janitors alongside his partner, an African-American woman. "Anybody can be redeemed. I've seen it."
studs terkel— Oliver Burkeman, on Terkel's views about Will the Circle be Unbroken? and his other books, in "Voice of America" in The Guardian (1 March 2002)]
Edmund White's website Dalkey Archive Press interview, 1994 Nashville Scene interview, April 2005 Reviews of White's memoir My Life :
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Ahmadinejad was the only presidential candidate who talked against future relations with the United States. Also, in an interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting a few days before the elections, Ahmadinejad accused the United Nations of being "one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam."
mahmoud ahmadinejad— Biography on Babnet Tunisia on babnet.net, June 25, 2005
The whole point of an interview is to ... earn something with it and I'm not going to earn anything from people who are there to badger me and use my words to batter me with. [in mainstream media outlets] There's no earnings for me there.
sharron angle— to Associated Press, 2010-07-15"Sharron Angle Says Campaign to Defeat Harry Reid God's 'Calling'", Associated Press, 15 July 2010 on her only giving interviews to conservative media
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.
stewart brand— Whole Earth Discipline (2009), page 230.
In every interview I've done since the beginning, [I'm asked] 'How do you feel about opening doors?' And I always say, 'There are two men who opened the doors for all of us, and they were Feliciano and Santana.
gloria estefan— Reuters (July 23, 2007)
Our indirect methods have taught us a mountain of things about horses, but if you wished to learn even more, would you rather be Whirlaway in the stretch, than interview Eddie Arcaro afterwards?
stephen jay gould— "Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?"
I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.
Alexander Hamilton— Letter written the night before his duel with Aaron Burr (10 July 10 1804)
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
hans hofmann— "Painting and Culture" p. 58
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit. I become very domesticated, it becomes riding my bike, and the music thing the music thing doesn't leave but it's kind of less put upon me by other people as a musician.
john mayer— On whether or not he misses being home with friends and family when he is on tour.Savino, Jessi, et al (2007) "John Mayer talks life on the road, latest album" NU-News.com (accessed February 14, 2007)
I think the main thing is that I very rarely recognise the actual interview in print. To me, it's like being painted by an artist. And then you see the picture, and they've painted someone else.
morrissey— From Oor magazine (Feb. 1987)
For natures such as Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed and Gautama Buddha is already the capacity of its openness for a world vision part of its application documents. With its virtues, experiences and abilities they belong to each post written out in the world with each interview to the most promising candidates and easy are erhalten.
— James Redfield, in the Manual of the 10th Celestine Prophecy part of I: The threshold; Heyne publishing house Munich, German-language edition 1997,ISBN 3-453-11809X
I like Muslims, I've been to mosques. . . . And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview because what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.
— Glenn Beck question to United States Congressman Keith Ellison, quoted in response brief in Beck v. Eiland-Hall; cited in — Gardner, Eriq (September 29, 2009). "Glenn Beck Satire Site Fights Back". Adweek (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
