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• The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you’re working. You don’t get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, ‘I want to come here when I don’t have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.’ Because I think it was just a magnificent place.

  Lester Holt

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• I’m probably the worst person for ‘Men’s Health’ to interview.

  Jamie Dornan

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• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it’s really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it’s nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  Zaha Hadid

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• It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview – and it can be polite – is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can’t be exactly sure what will be asked.

  Greta Van Susteren

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage – including unfair damage – from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

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• 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

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• I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

  Neil Strauss

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• A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

  David Steinberg

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you’re a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you’re a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you’re going to get at it. Acting’s no different.

  Tom Sizemore

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• There’s only one interview technique that matters… Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

  Jim Lehrer

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• I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

  Heath Ledger

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• A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

  Ron Fournier

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• I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

  Isabel Allende

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• I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

  Fareed Rafiq Zakaria

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• I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from ‘The Lion King’ – and it’s a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

  Eddie Redmayne

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• There’s been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I’d heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  Dan Hicks

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• 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.

  Tom Araya

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• Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

  Bob Schieffer

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• I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

  Patricia Highsmith

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• The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn’t tell him the dog’s name.

  David Hyde Pierce

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