Quote by James Thurber
My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers

My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. – James Thurber

Other quotes by James Thurber

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. – James Thurber

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber

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Interviews
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The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it. – Serge Daney

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The best interviews — like the best biographies — should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. – Lynn Barber

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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. – Oscar Wilde

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way its the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where peoples hearts lie. – Paul Scott

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