"Interviewing is not a democratic art."

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Source : "Vanishing act" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

Andrew O'Hagan

#Art Quotes #Democratic Quotes

“If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.”
“Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.”
“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.”

Source : "Grants: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?". Article by Cecilia Blanford, www.grantprofessionals.org. February 22, 2012.
“-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-”
“I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “Dancing Bear”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.”
“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

Source : "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 4, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.
“I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do that well, I think, one needs to point out the artifice of the narrative. Somehow if the narrator is self-aware then it's almost more humanizing and more relatable.”

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