Interviewee's Quotes

#1. I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

Alan Sugar

#2. It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

John Travolta

#3. Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

David Duchovny

#4. The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

Steve Cosson

#5. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Jon Ronson

#6. My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

Yvette Clarke

#7. I was so busy planning for tomorrow that I had nothing done today.

Keri L. Sparks

#8. Somewhere she had learned that if an interviewer remains silent, the interviewee will rush to fill the silence.

William Landay

#9. I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

Misha Collins

#10. Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.

William Finnegan

#13. What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand.

Nicole Polizzi

#14. Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Christian Dior

#15. This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

Lee Gutkind

#16. I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

Jessica Sanchez

#17. Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.

Marc Ostrofsky

#18. I'm not involved in any Philadelphia-related game or situation. When people claim I'm going to have a "vendetta" against every other Eastern Conference team I don't understand the logic: I'm not the one doling out the punishment.

Chris Pronger

#19. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.

Frances Brody

#20. Another [interviewee] told me that because her relationships aren't built on false ideas about exclusivity forever, she feels more cherished by her partners; she said, There is an investment in what we have rather than what we should have.

Tristan Taormino

#21. Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Millicent Fawcett

#22. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

Vita Sackville-West

#23. The way our minds work is that one positive thing and one negative thing does not equal each other.

Instead, one negative thing can drastically bring down 2 or 3 positive things.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#24. It is a triumph of the Omnimalevolent Creator's design. As technique is improved, joy declines. Inevitably, talent degenerates too.

John Zande

#25. I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Daniela Ruah

#26. It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

John Hawkes

#27. The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

John Keegan