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IAIN S. THOMAS When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of m...
QUENTIN CRISP I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he migh...
RACHEL PERRY Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.
IAIN THOMAS If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?
It's bad day in b...
DEYTH BANGER I wasnt looking for anything when I found you & it somehow made me question what I wanted, was i...
NIKKI ROWE This is not some kind of interview panel for state executioner
ROBIN DAY I think this is important that this is coming before the council in an election season.
DENNIS ROSA There are a lot of eyes looking at this. I think things can be worked out. The lease won't be coming...
LINDA CROPP Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS This interview is an outcry interview, ... a low C for a grade.
LEE POWELL When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the Under-16 or...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afrai...
HUBERT SELBY JR. There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play.
JASON CAMPBELL Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
DONALD MILLER You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did ...
KEANU REEVES His campaign has used this for some time as an effort to kind of buttress his national security flan...
WESLEY CLARK I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN My family kind of freaked out because this is a big season, not only for me but for our team. We had...
LEE RUBIN I would like to thank everyone for coming out today for my official announcement on running for Stau...
ANDREA OAKES Architecturally, it is a castle. When I first saw this beautiful fortress and heard it might be for ...
MUSE WATSON I guess it's disappointing for that kind of stuff to be coming out now,
RICKY PONTING People are starting to get worried about when Jimmy Parker might be able to get out.
CAROL OLSEN I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
BAS RUTTEN I thought we had a lackluster performance. I kind of thought we might be flat tonight after playing ...
GUY GREENING With that in mind, I tend to think that we might as a council be well to delay this proposition for ...
DONALD PARKER Dave is kind of smack dab in the middle. This will be attractive to voters.
RONALD COLLINS Interview, Don't clamor for an interview. Instead search for the INNER VIEW.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I have an affinity for this kind of athlete,
BILL POLIAN I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI There doesn't seem to be a limit for what people might spend for this kind of entertainment.
DON WALSH I have thought in past years about running for City Council, but I always let the deadline pass me b...
CAROLYN KING Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.
ALEXA CHUNG I vividly remember coming for an interview [for his job] - many interviews - and I was asked if I wo...
DAVID WILSON Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts co...
AMITABH BACHCHAN In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would a...
EDWARD G. ROBINSON I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator...
GARY KEMP I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPER I had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters ...
KEVIN BACON When this came up, I thought, what an honor to be able to do something for my country in a job I lov...
JOAN BYTHEWAY Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. There are too many medio...
DREAMS FOR AN INSOMNIAC Game time. I thought, 'This might be the game.
CHANSI STUCKEY There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opp...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem...
HOLLY BLACK Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years...
GARY CHERONE I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
DOROTHY KILGALLEN We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Securi...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI I was 11 and always watched TV and cartoons and I would always kind of point at the cartoons and say...
BRECKIN MEYER This is a hard time for the city, a hard time for the council and a hard time for the mayor. I'd muc...
DAVID MANN It changed a lot. I knew the fog was coming, it was just a matter of when. I was kind of prepared fo...
AARON OBERHOLSER Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated.
FAYDRA D. FIELDS You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one.
FAYDRA D. FIELDS Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effo...
KNUT HAMSUN Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidit...
WERNER HERZOG We always assume that people hate Us. That's not always the case. People hate what we Do...whether i...
MITTA XININDLU I didn't even know who Karl Rove was when I went over there for the interview.
DAN BARTLETT I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm...
ROCK HUDSON He is coming to play in India I am feeling very proud. He is selected in the England cricket team. H...
HARI SINGH I actually thought this kind of game might be coming; we had our best practice of the season last ni...
JAY MOORE But, I still can't totally forgive Dave for blowing my world apart. DO YOU HEAR THAT, DAVE?!
K.M. SHEA I figure we'd might as well have tests for us to get to state so when we get to state it might be a ...
DEANTHONY ZANDERS I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their p...
ELIZABETH HURLEY I actually ... felt too relaxed. I hit an awful iron into the first hole, then another terrible iron...
MARK CALCAVECCHIA For Nate and Gray, this is their third season playing together on attack. I hope to see more out of ...
CHAD HANNING I think we learned a very good lesson. When an issue like this comes up, this council won't be jumpi...
JACCI JAHNKE David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him...
JORDI ARRESE When she gets mad enough, I think that's when she plays the best. That goes for a lot of post player...
CANDICE DUPREE Coming off a 7-9 record last season, we thought this year we were at least going to win 10 games. No...
COREY BRADFORD I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be [doi...
MIKE WALLACE - Thirteen numbers applied to be on the face of the clock, and I hand selected each one.
- Sele...
STEFAN D The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving...
KID ROCK When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeli...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fai...
ANGIE MARTINEZ Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
PATRICK KAVANAGH I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never se...
CAL RIPKEN, JR. It felt intrusive, sure, but I wouldn't have been much of a documentary maker if I hadn't realized w...
RUPERT MURRAY I thought a couple of times when I left here I wasn't coming back.
BUBBA CROSBY For an instant I thought he might be serious, but in the context of the rest of his behavior, it did...
MAUREEN MURPHY It was a real difficult time, and I was thinking, 'Why did I come here? I thought about transferring...
CHAD JACKSON I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But ...
JAMES CORDEN In the first quarter for six minutes I thought we played good. I think that our kids thought 'this i...
DAVE LUTZ My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER This council will operate under the concept that there will be no tax increase this coming fiscal ye...
JACK SAMMONS I realized... I still had some kind of skill in being able to produce audio material which might be ...
YUSUF ISLAM Dave kind of reminds me of myself when I went with Bobby. He made all the calls on Saturday but I wa...
BRET BIELEMA I thought we were told when the students move into the new building there would not be a need for as...
BRAD BAUER I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time fo...
ERIKA SLEZAK When I thought about engaging our students to be more environmentally conscious, I thought our resid...
GARY SCHULTZ It's been a long time coming. A couple of years ago I thought it might never happen, but this year I...
SIMON DYSON Even though 'Kroll' was a crazy sketch show with big characters, one of the things I'm p...
NICK KROLL I just want to be a normal kid like all my friends. I like acting. I might want to be an actor for a...
ERIK PER SULLIVAN I thought we'd get a bunch but we only had four for most of last year. This will be the first time w...
DEAN TOWER I'm honored and humbled to be selected for an award like this. Now I know the pressure athletes must...
JUAN LLERA We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming w...
JACK STRAW After careful thought and my desire to retire our supremely selected president, I've decided to run ...
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DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER