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Interviewing people is pretty natural for me. -- Nina Blackwood
Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. -- Charlyne Yi
Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better. -- Shepard Smith
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend. -- Walter Cronkite
Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it. -- Anthony DeCurtis
Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people. -- Oprah Winfrey
When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions. -- William Shatner
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. -- Meryl Streep
Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. -- Michael Parkinson
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. -- Liz Phair
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start. -- Michael Palin
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not. -- Barbara Walters
My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real. -- Eddie Trunk
When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly. -- Bill Rancic
If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories. -- Cat Deeley
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far. -- Sidney Sheldon
When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing. -- Joe Sacco
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone. -- Garry Shandling
As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony. -- Ethan Hawke
People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me. -- Adam Garcia
My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most. -- Brian Lamb
We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs. -- Zig Ziglar
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. -- Kristina McMorris
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project. -- Spencer Bachus
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson. -- Bernie Mac
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big. -- Hoda Kotb
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process. -- Eric Ries
Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs. -- Chip Conley
I'm single but interviewing. -- Billy Joel
The mortician interviewing the corpses -- Eugene McCarthy
It must be hard interviewing actors. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I am really bad at actually interviewing people. -- Graham Norton
I like living with myself. I mean obviously, because here I am interviewing myself. -- Jimmy Fallon
If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine! -- Tom T. Hall
There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them. -- Joel Stein
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. -- William Safire
Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day. -- David Brooks
On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth. -- David McCullough
Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others. -- Dale Dauten
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself. -- Errol Morris
The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal. -- Donna Brazile
...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. -- Jim Morrison
AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people. -- Sam Altman
Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head. -- Samuel Shem
The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs. -- Chuck Todd
In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers. -- Gail Sheehy
Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers. -- Joan Rivers
I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family. -- Mara Wilson
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence. -- Errol Morris
When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are. -- Nina Garcia
The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face. -- Katie Couric
Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy. -- Tony Romo
One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show. -- Nick Bantock
Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff]. -- Quint Studer
I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing. -- Lady Gaga
I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers. -- Rhianna Pratchett
What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire. -- Jeff Bezos
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. -- Suzanne Somers
I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece. -- Rob Corddry
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. -- Alan Dundes
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this. -- Tony Greig
I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him. -- Ryan Seacrest
I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people. -- Lorraine Adams
I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day. -- Terry McMillan
The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys. -- Melissa Rivers
I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record. -- Kristin Hersh

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