Michael Finkel Quotes
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
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It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York]
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It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
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Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'
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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
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The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
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The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
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I do all my interviews on the toilet.
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I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
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I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."
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Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all.
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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The instructed noble disciple knows of an escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. Since he does not seek delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling does not lie behind this. He understands as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings. Since he understands these things, the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling does not lie behind this.
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I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
