"In the course of interviewing, I've discovered that if you don't give your guest something to react to, they don't react. They simply say what they've been saying every time they've been interviewed. The last thing you want is to have people say to you what they've said to someone else."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 2010.

Michael Silverblatt

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Guests Quotes

“To maken vertue of necessite.”
“In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.”
“Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.”
“Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.”

Source : Joseph Conrad pt. 3, sec. 1 (1924)
“A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself”
“From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.”
“I think musicians should stay off television generally.”
“It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.”

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