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Quote by Roland Barthes
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of tro

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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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

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It is not every question that deserves an answer. – Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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